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Dodger's Hire Jackie Robison
Color line is a barrier that separates whites from non whites
Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers break the color line
Robinson took the field in 1947 -
Executive Order 9981
Segregation- Grouping people be group or color
President signs the executive Order - It effects those in the military
Executive Order 9981 ends segregation in the military -
advocates for blacks
nation of islam means separating blacks and whites. racial groups are known as muslim groups. -
Brown vs Board of Education Ruling
Thrurgood Marshall is the lead attorney for NAACP
Separate schools for blacks and whites are unconstitutional
It was a start for civil rights for all -
Voting Rights Act
disenfranchise means not letting people vote -
First Lunch
jim crow sit in means the counters were reserved for whites only -
Watts Riot and Kerner Commission
Riot lasted 6 days -34 people died , 900 injured, 4000 arrested -
Watts Riot + Kener Commission
Riot lasted 6 days - 34 killed - 900 injured -4000 arrested
Kerner Commission- Concluded our nation was moving toward a separate nation - one black, one white -
Montgomery bus boycott
social relations -
Civil Rights Act
discrimination means being disrespectful toward blacks -
Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Judge order the district to use buses to integrate schools -
Regents of the University of California v Bakke
Upheld affirmative action by declaring that race could be used as one of the criteria in admissions decisions
