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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
-Civil Rights: A persons freedom and equality - The CORE helped -
Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
-Thurgood Marshall: He became the leader of the NAACP in 1940
-Brown wanted Blacks and whites to go to the same schools
-The court wanted Blacks and whites to go to separate schools -
Executive Order 9981
-Segregation: Separating one group from another group based on appearance or personality
- Truman ended segregation in the military
-Blacks were able to fight for their country -
Jackie Robinson Hired to the Brooklyn Dodgers
-Color Line: An imaginary border that separated whites from blacks
- Jackie Robinson was the first black person to play
- He was on a all black team but then went to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers -
Montgomery Bus Boycott (start)
-Boycott: A protest against something that you don't agree with
-Rosa Parks: She was a 43 year old African American who refused to give up her seat for a white man and was arrested for it
-Since she was arrested Martin Luther King Jr. 26 years old at the time was the leader of a riot to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks
-The Boycott lasted 381 days -
Integration of Central High School
-Little Rock Nine: 9 African Americans who went to school in an all white school
-Each of the 9 students had there own swat team member
-2,000 white students had been attending Central High School at the time -
First Lunch Counter Sit-in
-Jim Crow Law's: Law's that stated that the south needed to be segregated, they discontinued this law in 1965
-Sit-ins: A person or people sitting in a public place and not leaving when told to create a riot
-The four African Americans that were sitting there were not served
-20 other African Americans had joined the Sit-in -
Freedom Rides
-Civil disobedience: a peaceful protest against something protesters disagree with
-CORE was involved with organizing these Freedom Rides
-CORE ended up abandoning the Freedom Rights, but SNNCC continued them
The Freedom Riders were peacefully riding on a bus and their happiness was soon ruined. -
March on Washington
-NAACP: Group that fights against attacks upon African Americans
- More than 250,000 people were in the march
- There were 60,000 white people in the march -
Birmingham Campaign
-SCLC:
-Birmingham was the most segregated city
-On April 12, 1963 Martin Luther King and 50 other innocents were arrested for protesting -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
-Plessy v. Ferguson: A case that was about segregation
-The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination
-The ban included for sex, race, religion, and national origin -
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 -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
-Nation of Islam: A group known as Black Muslims that believed in separation between blacks and whites
-Malcolm X: a supporter of black rights
-Malcolm went into crime as a young kid
-Malcolm believed in the words of a Muslim named Elijah Muhammad -
Black Panther Party
-Black Power: A movement thats goal was to support the rights of African Americans
- They chose the name Black Panther because black panthers were the most powerful animal
- The group was created solely to stand up for African Americans against white people -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
-Discrimination: not letting someone else do something that another person is doing because they are different
- Days after Martin Luther King's assassination the government made the Civil Rights Act
- This Civil Rights Act was mainly to help black people get houses -
Watts Riot
-Kerner Commission: A group that said that whites were the cause of the Watts Riot
-Ghettos: a part of a town that has everyone of the same ethnicity living in it
- The Watts Riot lasted 6 days
- 34 people died, 900 injured, 4,000 arrested -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
-Desegregation: the ending of separation a group of people
- The judge made a certain decision that people didn't like so they begged him to change his decision
- There were all black schools and all white schools -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
-Affirmative Action: A policy/action that supported people who were discriminated
- During the trial the court was completely split
- California won the trial
