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CORE Founded
civil rights - The rights of citizens to political and social equality
peaceful protest - everything CORE did they wanted it to be peaceful
vocal - when the CORE talked people listened -
Dodgers hire Jackie Robinson
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
segergation - Separation of people by there race or beliefs
President Truman signs this Order
Executive Order 9981 ends armed forces segergation -
Brown vs Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall was associate of the supreme court
school segregation is ended because browns case
Brown brought education together -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks - Rosa Parks really sparked the movement because she wouldn't move to the back for a white man
Boycott - no one would ride the buses tell the government segregated them
Ending it - the government finally ended segregation of buses -
Integration of Central High School
Little Rock nine - african americans going to a white school
broke the color barrier - first segregated school
Racist Whites - cursed at a yelled at during schoo -
Counter Sit Ins
Jim Crow laws and sit ins - enforcing racial segregation
showed how african americans were treated
influenced other peaceful protests -
Birmingham Campaign
SCLC - african americans civil rights organization
big march - ending racism
MLK - arrested during this time -
March on Washington
NAACP - an organization that was established to help the cicvil rights movement
Americans - 200,00 gathered in D.C. to protest
MLK - lead/spoke at the march -
Freedom Rides
Civil disobedience and SNCC - refusal to comply with certain laws
Segregation - Ended it with buses and railroads
Buses - set on fire -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
pissey vs ferguson - supreme court case that favored segregation
US outlawed segregation
Blacks got equal rights -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam - African American political and religious movement,
Malcom X - powerful spokesperson
Jail - malcom x spent time in jail -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
disenfranchise - outlawed the discriminatory voting practices
voting - black people had a word now
civil rights - gave a big push towards the civil rights movement -
Watts Riot
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Black Panther Party Founded
Black Power - political slogan that african american use
reason - formed to stop police brutality in black neighborhoods
Newton - founded the group -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Discrimination - prejudicial treatment of different categories of people bases on there race or sex
Act - refusal to sell or rent a house or apartment to any person because of his race color religion
Who it helped - Really everyone because it gave everyone equal rights and gave business for profit -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
desegregation - the ending of a policy of racial segregation
education - helped african americans become more educated
Carolina - good place to set thus example at -
Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakke
Affirmative Action - something that favors discriminated races
Racial Quotes - schools that used this were ruled unconstitutional
Bakke - decline admission to a mainly black school
