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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
-Civil rights- a persons freedom and equality - the CORE helped -
Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
-Thurgood Marshall he became the leader of the NAACP in 1940
Brown wanted all people of different races to go to the same schools
- the court wanted people of different races to go to different schools -
Executive Order 9981
-segregation separating one group from another based on appearance or personality
- truman ended segeration in the military
- blacks were able to fight for their country -
Montgomery Bus Boycott start
boycott a protest againstance something that you don't agree with
rosa parks she was a 43 year old african american who refused to give up her seat on the bus
since she was arrested MLK 26 leaded a protest
the boycott lasted 361 days -
Integration of Central High School
Little Rock Nine african americans who went to school in an all white school
each of the nine students had there own swat team member
2,000 white students had been attending the central HS at the time. -
First lunch counter sit in
Jim crow law's law that stated that the south needed to be segregated
-the four african americans were sittin there and were not derved
- 20 others joined the sit in -
Freedom Rides
-Civil disobedience: a peaceful protest against something protesters disagree with
- Congress of Racial Equality was involved with organizing these freedom rides
-CORE ended abandoning freedom rides, but SNCC continued them
- Some freedom riders were beat up for their cause -
March on Washington
NAACP group that fights against attacks apon african americans
more than 250,000 people were in the mach there were 60,000 white people in the march - -
Birmingham campaign
-SCLC
- on April 2nd 1963 MLK and 50 others were arrested for protesting.
-Birmingham was the most segregated city -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
-Disenfranchise: not allowing people to vote
- Congress Passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- African Americans got the right to Vote Because of this Act -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
disenfranchise not allowing people to vote
congress passed the VR act of 1965
african american got the right to vote because of this act -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam a group of black muslims that were believed in separation between blacks and whites
Malcom X a supporter pf blacks rights
malcom went into crime as a young kid
he believed in the worlds of a muslim named elijah -
Black Panther Party Founded
Black Power a movement who's goal was to support the rights of african americans
they chose their name because of black panthers where the most popular animal
the group was created to stand up for african americans against white -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
discrimination not letting someone else do something another person is doing
days after MLK was assassination the government made the civil rights act
the civil rights act was mainly for african americans to get houses -
Watts Riot
Kerner Commission- a group of whites that said that african americans were the cause of the watts riot
ghettos- a part of the town that has everyone of the same race living in it
the riot lasted 6 days
34 died 900 were injured 4,000 were arrested -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
desegregation the ending of segregation a group of people
the juge made a ceritan decision that people did not like so they begged him to change it
there were all blacks schools and all white schools -
Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakke
Affirmative action a rule that supported people who were discriminated against
during the trial, the court was completely split
California won the trial
