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congress of radical equality founded
civil rights protect individual
students
first action sit in -
dodgers hire Jackie Robinson
color line
branch rickey hired him
baseball was divided by color line
Jackie crossed the colored line -
Executive Order 9981
segregation
a executive order issued President Harry S. Truman
to get rid of racial discrimination
10% of the nation was african american back in this time
blacks were allowed to join the army -
brown v. board of education ruling
Thrugood marshall
public schools become de segregated
agrued before the warren court
linda brown wanted to go to a white school that was closer to home case was argued infront of the warren court -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Plessy v. Ferguson
president kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
lyndon finish pass kennedys bill after death
bill signed on July 2, 1964 -
First lunch counter sit-in
Jim Crow Laws & Sit-ins
David Richmond Franklin McCain Ezell Blair Jr Joseph McNei
leave Woolworth in Greensboro
no photos were allowed in the dine in
other whites eating there bugged in the action and made a big scene -
Freedom Rides
Civil disobedience
they were northern idealists both back and white
John Robert Lewis
there bus burst int flames after whites lit it on fire
tires got slashed -
Birmingham campaign
SCLC
MLK
leader of activists Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth
18 bombings
on april 12th 50 were arrested -
Integration of Central High School
Little Rock Nine
Orval Faubus the principal
the 9 black students
Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas
they were constantly a target
principal ordered the national guard to not let them enroll -
March on Washington
NAACP
MLK
a march for jobs and freedom
all pending on congress
more than 250,000 marched
was by far the biggest -
Montgomery Bus Boycott (start)
Boycott & Rosa Parks
rosa parks
court hearing lasted 381 days long
supreme Court ruled that segregation in public buses is unconstitutional -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
disenfranchise
Lyndon Johnson
adopted after civil war
discriminatory voting practices in most southern states -
Black Panther Party Founded
Black Power
Malcolm X
Bobby Seale
Huey Newton
founded the party held in Oakland california -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam, Malcom X
malcom X & MLK
its a doctrine in order to separate white society
Malcom X rejected the goals of early civil rights
he later reached out to all race making a bigger call for freedom rights
he was born in Omaha Nebraska his brith name was malcom little -
Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakke
Affirmative action
Lewis Powell
reached the supreme court
it was remained deeply divided after hearing the disagreement
also racial quotas were unconstitutional during this time -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
discrimination
President Johnson
this describes the dwelling or renting or selling to any race religion
or national orgin
another name of this act would be the fair housing act -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
desegregation
judge John Parker
1.2% of blacks attended school
later was raised to 32%]
later lost patience with school districts and went steadily down -
Watts Riot
Kerner Commission &
ghettos
MLK
over 30 people died
one of the first serious clashes between police and blacks in the late 1970's
