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CORE founded
one of the big four -
Jackie Robinson Hired to the Brooklyn Dodgers
color line -
Executive order 9981
segregation -
Brown vs. Board of Education
-Thurgood Marshall -
Integration of Central High School
- Little Rock Nine-first black students who integrated into a white school
- Little Rock Nine were not welcomed into their new high school
- students where escorted with troops to school
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
it lasted one year
the blacks boycotted busses and walked or carpooled -
First Lunch Counter Sit-in
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Advocates for Black Nationalism
There are different nationalist philosophies but the principles of all black nationalist ideologies are unity and self-determination that is, separation, or independence, from European society. -
Freedom Rides
13 african american activists made a series of bus trips to work against racism -
Birmingham Campaign: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
from MLK
a nonviolent strategy that will work against racism -
March on Washington
Blacks marched on Washington was for freedom, and jobs -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
A labor law that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Watts Riot
started because of police brutality -
Black Panther Party Founded
watched the number of police brutalities with blacks -
civil rights act of 1968
Out laws discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion, or national origin -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
the Court ruled unconstitutional a university's use of racial quotas in its admissions process