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Brown v. Board of education ruling.
Thurgood Marshall was a attorney that argued that segregation harms african children.
-Ruling that segregation in schools is unconstitutional. -
Congress of racial equality founded.
Civil rights to every citizen in the united states.
-Founded by a group of students who protested nonviolently against segregation
-started in the north the moved to bigger cities and got to the south and many blacks got civil rights. -
Jackie Robinson Hired to the Brooklyn Dodgers
Color line: a barrier created by custom, law, and economic differences that separated whites from nonwhites.
-When jackie took to the feild the first time he was made fun of for being black. -
Executive Order 9981
segregation:the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
-Their is segregation
- President truman sings act 9981 and starts desegregation. -
Birmingham Campaign: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
SCLC: Southern christian leader ship conference
-Joined king in rebelling in segregation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court.
-It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal. -
Black panther party founded
Black power: group of activists that were ok being violent when protesting
SNCC: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Blacks and the nation of islom were influenced by th leaders Malcolm X, Huey newton and bobby steal.
- Were ok with violence
-Wanted to make a change -
First Lunch Counter Sit-in
Jim Crow Laws & Sit-In -
Freedom Rides
Civil Disobedience & SNCC:the nonviolent refusal to obey a law that the protester considers to be unjust -
Integration of Central High School
The little rock nine: where nine black students sent to go to a white school. -
March on Washington
NAACP:a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization.
-The march to Washington was a protest that blacks wanted civil rights. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Boycott & Rosa Parks: Rosa refused to give up her set on the bus and that started the bigining of a massive protest.
-Peaple stopped riding the bus. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
disenfranchise:the right to vote.
-Peaple were wanting peaple from missisipe to vote. -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam, Malcom X: Macolm was aislomic person that tryed to spead his teachings. -
Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakke
Affirmative action: action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. -
Swann v. Charrotte-Mecklenburg bord of Education
Desegregation: ending the segragation of peaple by race
-school and the black students who are being bussed to the school
-bussing is a way for schools to desegregate. -
Watts Riot
Kerner Commission & ghettos: the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders that concluded that white racism was the fundamental cause of the Watts riot
-Police were forced to stop the riot wich lasted six days
