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CORE founded
-Civil rights were the equalities to all people
-Eventually abandoned the freedom riders after the were beaten
-CORE made the freedom rides to see if states were complying to stop rasism -
Dodgers hire Jackie Robinson
-Colour line is a separation of race
-Robinson played in 1947
-Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers- break the colour line -
Executive Order 9981
-Segregation is the separation of people by their race or beliefs
-President Truman signs this order
-This ended segregation in the military -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
-Nation of Islam, Malcom X
-also known as Black Muslims, they were taught that first people of Earth had been tricked out of power and oppressed to be convicts
- Malcom quickly became a leading member in the Nation Of Islam and it's teaching to the public -
Brown vs. Board of Education
-Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
-A class-action lawsuit, or a persons who fight in court for the benefit of a larger group
-The brown case made schools and other public places unsegregated. -
integration of central high school
-Little rock 9 were 9 black kids who were to go to a white high school
-The people tried to stall the desegregation as long as possible
-even with the national guard helping them, they were still threatened, and insulted -
first lunch counter sit in
-Jim crow laws and Sit in- Jim crow laws segregated people based on race, but the sit ins made restaurants give in to them, and lets black eat there
-After the first on worked, many people started doing sit ins all over the place
-Many college students took a stand, and started doing sit ins, and many became activists for the civil rights movement -
Birmingham Campain
-SCLC-Southern Christian Leadership Conference
-Birmingham was the focus of the SCLC
-They marched a lot -
March on Washington
-NAACP
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
-Was purposed in 1941 -
civil right acts of 1964
-Plessy v. Fergenson-upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
-Stopped segregation based on race, and sex
-This was the most important thing since Reconstruction -
freedom rides
Civil disobedience and the SNCC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee made nonviolent protests
-Students were encouraged to break laws they saw unjust
-The freedom riders were attacked. a lot. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
-Disenfranchise
-to stop the right of voting
-Congress outlawed all tests that could stop people from voting -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
-Boycott and rosa parks
-Rosa parks wouldnt give up her seat, so she was arrested
-Many black Americans gave up riding buses and began to walk, or carpool -
Black Panther Party Founded
-Black Power
-a movement in support of rights and political power for black people
-They were violent and carried weapons and werent afraid to stand up to police -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
-discrimination
-bias based on race, sex or religion.
-This stopped bias for selling or renting housing based on race or sex. -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
-desegregation
-to remove segregation in schools
-Judge said buses are to bus students out of the neighborhood to balance the races in schools -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
-Affirmative action
-to equalize jobs and education
-it was decided that radical quotas were unconstitutional -
watts riot
-Kerner and Commission Ghettos
-Kerner and commission were sent to stop and put down the riots
-The riots were very violent, and 34 people died because of this riot. The riot happened because of lack of jobs and extreme racism
