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Congress of Racial Equality founded
Civil Rights is the right to be politically and socially equal.
Was an organization created by college students for equality.
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Dodger's HIRE Jackie Robinson
-color line is a barrier that separates whites from non-whites
Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers broke the color line
Robinson took the field in 1947 -
Executive Order 9981
-Segregation is the grouping of people by race or religion
President Truman signs this Executive Order, it effects those in the military
Executive order ends segregation in the military -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam is African Americans advocating the teaching of Islam which Malcolm X started losing hope in it.
Wallace Fard created the Nation of Islam in the 1930s
Malcolm X told other blacks to not trust the whites and that they should be proud of their heritage -
Brown vs the Board of Education Ruling
Thurgood Marshall argued for non whites to get into school
Earl Warren was the new chief of justice
Marshall showed how segregation was effecting African American children -
Start Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Boycott started because Rosa Parks didn't want to go to the back of the bus. The boycott was the way of the blacks showing that they were not going to be treated like that.
That wasn't her first time running into Blake in 1943 she entered through the front entrance and payed then told her she needed to enter through the back and he drove away. -
Integration of Central High School
Little Rock Nine was a group of black's that enrolled at an all-white high school in little rock Arkansas.
This happened because the supreme court declared that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
The kids that took part were Minnijean Brown, Elizibeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melda Patillo, Gloriam Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Wallks. -
First Lunch Counter Sit-in
Jim Crow Laws were laws that were enforced by the state and local's keeping segregation in the southern US.
David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr, and Joseph McNeil left Woolworth North Carolina where they initiated a lunch-counter sit-in to protest segregation. -
Freedom Rides
Civil Disobedience was the act to comply with certain laws or pay taxes and fines.
The SNCC was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movements. They were the leaders who initiated the sit-in protest.
The freedom rides was a group of 13 African-Americans and white civil rights activists, who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality. -
Birmingham campaign: Letter from a Birmingham jail
SCLC is an organization created by Martin Luther King Jr. to use non-violence to get equality
Martin Luther and 50 others were arrested after a Good Friday demonstration.
MLKJ wrote these letters as a response to eight Birmingham clergymen but it became bigger and was shared with the nation -
March on Washington
NAACP were a civil rights organization founded to fight prejudice, lynching, and jim crow segregation along with the betterment of nonwhites
The march on Washington was a march for jobs and freedom along with political demonstrations held in washington -
Civil rights act of 1964
Plessy V Ferguson happened because Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car breaking the Louisiana law.
The civil rights act of 1964 ended segregation in public
It was first put into play by JFK but was rejected by congress but it stayed strong until LBJ finally got it passed. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Disenfranchise is the act of taking away someones right to vote.
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. -
Watts Riot
Kerner Commission and Ghettos -
Black Panther Party Founded
Black Power was a movement in support of rights and political power for black people. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
deiscrimination -
Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
desegregation is the act of ending a policy of racial segregation.
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
Affirmative Action
