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Jim crow laws and sit in
- sit in sitting in a public as means of peaceful protesting
- Jim crow laws laws that made racial segregation ok in the south -African american college kids went in every day to woolswoth
- these students were often attacked by white costumers and store owners
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Jackie robinson hired to the Brooklyn dodgers
-color line a custom law that segregated whites and blacks
-jackie robinson was the first black major league baseball player
-after robinson join the major other sports started accepting black people -
exective order 9981
seteration- pulling the blacks away from the whites
-no more segregation in the military
-equality to all race color and religion in the military -
brown vs board of education ruling
thurgood marshall man in charge of NAACP fought against school segregation
1954 Supreme Court ruling declaring that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
-a lawsuit filed by people on behalf of themselves and a larger group who might benefit class action lawsuit -
congress of racial equality (core) founded
-civil rights protests that want the same equality as others
- peaceful protest at a segregated coffee shop in Chicago in 1943 gained national attention and helped CORE spread to other northern cities
-many groups tried to help black people in the north and south -
Montgomery bus boycott
-boycott African americans do not ride bus to protest
-Rosa parks didn't give up seat to white person and got arrested
-on that day most of the african americans that rode the bus didn't
-the protests choose martin luther king jr. to lead the bus boycott -
intergation of central high school
-little rock 9- nine black people decelerated central high school
-desegregation of little rock Arkansas -national guard stopped the black students form entering the school -
letter form a Birmingham jail
-SCLC African-American civil rights organization
-many african american protesters arrested for protesting
-many blacks in jail write about how MLK JR wont to something fast -
Freedom rides
-civil disobedience and SNCC refused to reply with the laws in form of protest
-SNCC The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
-freedom riders rode buses through south to test to see if laws were being followed
-mobs beat the bus passengers when it got to their town -
March on Washington
-NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded during the civil rights movement
-MLK JR says famous i have a dream speech
-makes president sign law end segregation -
civil rights act of 1964
plessy v Ferguson 1896 court case that determined equal but separate
originally Kennedy's idea but Johnson was able to get passed
civil rights act banned discrimination July 2 1964 -
advocates for the black nationalism
-nation of islam and Malcolm x complete segregation from the -whites and starting a black community
-Malcolm x the leader of the nation of islam
Malcolm x ejected the goals of the early rights movement
he was mad because he was put behind bars because the white men -
voting rights act of 1965
-disenfranchise not give legal rights to a person
-out lawed test to not let blacked vote
- efforts to voting rights were successful more back votes beginning counted -
watts riot
-kerner commission and ghettos black ghetto in Los Angeles, caused by frustrations about poverty, prejudice, and police mistreatment
- black people live in ghettos because they wanted to stay with their people
- all kinds of races indian african americans and spanish riot for there rights -
black panther party founded
-black power protest by african american to ecumenic and political power
-for days the marchers endured insults and threats form whites
- if they were attacked they would not back off from the whites -
civil rights act of 1968
-discrimination prejudges on different people from you
-banned discrimination in housing sales
-MLK JR gets shot and dies -
swann v charlotte-mecklenberg board of education
-desegregation the ending of a policy of racial segregation.
-schools end segregation and have white and black children in class
-schools have buses where white and black children ride together -
regents of the university of California vs bakke
-affirmative action policy that calls on employers to actively seek to increase the number of minorities in their workforce
-affirmative action was first introduced by john f Kennedy
-during the 1960's many collage and universities adopted affirmative action
