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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
-Civil rights: Rights that help protect an individuals rights.
-One of the big four Civil Rights organizations.
-African American Civil rights organization. -
Jackie Robinson Hired to the Brooklyn Dodgers
-Color line:Its the largest cruise ferry line to and from Norway
-He joined the NBL after WW2
-He wanted to fight anytime someone insulted him about the color of his skin. -
Executive Order 9981
-segregation: Being separated from another race
-An executive order to abolish discrimination
-It was and order by president Harry S. Truman -
Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
-Thurgood Marshall: Associate justice to the supreme court of the US
-Allowed African Americans to go to white schools
-Some schools in the south disagreed with the governments decisions -
Montgomery bus boycott
Boycott- Withdraw from something as a protest/Rosa Parks- Women who refused to give her seat up
-MLK lead this event
-Rosa Parks sparked the black nation by getting arrested -
Integration of Central High School
-Little Rock Nine: A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
-Nine black children went to a white school
-The black children need guards due to them going to a white school -
First Lunch Counter Sit-in
-Jim Crow Laws: Laws stating racial separation must be enforced in the south/Sit-In: Occupying an area as a protest.
-People were refused service
-College students started this event -
Freedom Rides
-Civil Disobedience: peaceful protest against something protestor disagrees with
-CORE was involved with organizing these Freedom Rides
-CORE ended up abandoning the Freedom Rides, but SNCC continued them -
Birmingham Campaign: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
-SCLC: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
-Hundreds of people were jailed
-MLK wrote the letter -
March on Washington
-NAACP:The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
-March for jobs and freedom
-Held in Washington D.C. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
-Plessy v. Ferguson: Was a battle for separation but equality.
-It was a law case
-Landmark in civil rights -
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 -
Watts Riot
-Kerner Commission: 11 men who decided things
-Ghettos: Poor part of town
-Lasted 5 days -
Black Panther Party Founded
-Black Power: A political slogan
-Founded in Oakland, California
-Had several meetings -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
-discrimination:Treating another sex, race, religion, etc with no respect and can go as far as to physically harm them
-42 titles were amended
-Also know as the fair housing act -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
-Desegregation: The ending to racial segregation.
-The school district thought that the judge had gone to far.
-Some students had been bused to schools outside of their neighborhood to make it more integrated -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
-Nation of Islam: African American political and religious movement -Malcom X: Muslim minister and civil rights activist -
Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakke
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