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dodgers hire Jackie Robinson
-Color blind, a blockade that separates lights from non lights
-Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers-Break the color line
-Jackie played for the first time in 1947 -
Executive order 9981
-Segregation- Seperation of people by their race
-President Truman signs the Executive Order
-Executive order ends military segregation -
Congress of Racial Equality Founded
Congress of Racial Equality Founded- an African Movement for civil rights
-It used non violet direct action
-They wanted to end racial segregation -
Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
Brown v. Board of Education Ruling- Browns goal was not end school segregation
-He did in fact end school segregation
-He had a hard time ending it due to the racist people -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Boycott & Rosa Parks- Rosa parks refused to move for a white man and got arrested
- The blacks did not ride the bus because of segregation
- It all started with Rosa Parks -
Integration of Central High School
Little Rock Nine- There were 9 black students enrolled in Little rock high
-Created riots and killed lots of people
-They wanted to be the first 9 black students to attend little rock high -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam, Malcom X- He was with the blacks and the kkk burned down his house, later his father was murdered.
- A new way of seeing a black person
- racial definition of national identity for black people. -
Lunch counter sit-in
Jim Crow Laws & Sit-ins- Jim Crows law said that whites could only get service
-They requested service at a restaurant and got refused service
-They were college kids -
Freedom rides
Civil disobedience- Refusal of laws
-created riots
-Blood bath -
Birmingham campaign
SCLC-African-American civil rights organization.
-brought attention to integration efforts by american americans
-Southern Christian leadership conference -
March on Washington
NAACP- its there to ensure EDU and homes for the black people
- It was a march for jobs and freedom
- It was in Washington DC -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Plessy v. Ferguson certain race- Separate But equal
-Its a landmark in civil rights
-US labor law that outlaws discrimination against a race -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Disenfranchise- Deprive of someone voting
- The US prohibits racial discreimhance in voting
- It basically made so blacks can vote with out hesitating -
Black Panther Party Founded
Black power, SNCC- Blacks wanted to be equal
- It went on From 1966 to 1982
-It was a black and socialist organization -
watts riot
Kerner Commission & ghettos- Back people lived in the ghettos and people were shocked by this
- It was a riot
-Black men arrested for accused of drunk driving -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Discrimination- prejudicial treatment
- Also known as he fair housing act
- Provided equal housing opportunities regarding religion or race -
Congressional Black Caucus Formed
Voter-Registration Drive- Right to vote?
- Race based political organization
- Represented African Americans members of the US congress -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
desegregation- The opposite of segregation
-Promoting students integration in school
-wanted no racial seperation in schools
