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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
-Civil Rights: RIghts that protect an individuals freedom.
-Founded by a group of students, commiting to non-violence for direct change.
-Was a key in the desegregation in the north and later turned it's attention to the south in the late 1950's -
Jackie Robinson Hired to the Brooklyn Dodgers
-Color Line: Colored people denied the same rights opportunities and facilities as white people.
-Branch Rickie was Jackies manager he is the one who hired him into the dodgers and broke the color line
-Fans taunted him and even his teammates even resigned from playing with him. -
Executive Order 9981
-Segregation: Setting other people apart from other people.
-This order stated that the armed forces couldn't segregate against colored people
- Truman signed this order because he believed that the discrimination in the armed forces needed to end -
Advocates for Blacks Nationalism
-Nation of Islam: a religious group, also known as the Black Muslims, that promoted complete separation from white society by establishing black businesses, schools, and communities
-Malcom X: A former convict that used his time behind bars to teach the teachings of Elijah Muhammad.
-After leaving prison he became the most well-known speaker for the Nation of Islam. -
Brown vs Board of Education
-Thurgood Marshall: Supreme court associate serving October 1967-1991
-This case was a set of cases from Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Washington D.C.
-They combined theses cases because they all moved through at the same time and they all required the same legal remedy. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
-Boycott: withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.
-Rosa Parks: refused to give up her seat to a white male on a bus and for that was arrested for it and that rose protest.
-A young minister organized a bus boycott on Dec.5 and 90% of African-Americans didn't ride the bus that day. -
March on Washington
-NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
-Phillip Randolph railed for this march but canceled, instead waited until the time was right in 1963
- This was the largest political gathering in history as more than 250,000 marched on Washington -
Regents of the University of California V. Blake
-Affirmative Action:an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
-disenfranchise: means not allowing people to vote
-congress passed Voting Rights act of 1965
-african americans got the right to vote because of this act -
Black Panther Party Founded
-Black Power: Movement supporting the rights and political power of african americans - Malcom X Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the black panther party in 1966 with the Ideal not giving up -
Birmingham Campaign: Letter from a Jail
-SCLC: Southern christian organization is a african american civil rights organization -
