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Sundown Towns
a town, city or neighborhood in the US that was whites. The term came from signs that were allegedly posted stating that people of color had to leave the town by sundown. -
Shelley v. Kraemer
a landmark U.S.Supreme Court case which held that courts could not enforce racial covenants on real estate. 14th amendement was used -
Supreme Court decision in 1954
Brown v. Board of Education, was a landmark U.S Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. -
Greensboro Sit-in
were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 which led to the Woolworth department store chain canin its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
August 28, 1963 speech in Washington, D.C.
public speech by American civil rights activist MLK, Jr. in which he called for an end to racism in the United States -
Proposition 14 in California
was a 1964 ballot proposition that amended the California state constitution, nullifying the Rumford Fair Housing Act. The act was passed to help end racial discrimination by property owners and land owners that didn't want to sell to colored people. -
Civil Rights Acts of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
Civil Rights Acts of 1968
is a landmark piece of legislation in the U.S that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin and made it a federal crime to by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone. -
Jonathon Kozol's Amazing Grace
Jonathan Kozol writes about his experiences and interactions with the people of the Bronx and surrounding areas. -
White flight and Penick v. Columbus Board of Education
White flight is a colloquial term for the demographic trend of upper and middle class Americans moving away from inner cities finding new homes in nearby suburbs or even moving to new locales entirely. The case was that schools in Columbus, Ohio were segregated and that the Columbus Board of Education kept white and blacks students apart from each other by creating school boundaries that sent blacks to black school and ehites ti white private schools
