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1940s Civil Rights
-The civil rights movement started on the northern side.
- The Ford, who had African Americans as a majority working there, they made tools for the WWII -
Race Riots
- The war between African Americans and white people. -The white people started hitting and being aggressive towards black people. -24 black people ended dead, and half of them ended killed by the police.
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Blacks in WWII
- The United States entered WWII. -African Americans where encharged of creating tools such as booms. -African Americans entered the war because they thought that would guarantee them more equal and fair rights.
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Isaac Woodard
- Was an African American soldier during WWII. -After the war, he came back to his hometown Georgia.
- He was denied to a bathroom inside a bus even though he had his soldier uniform. -He was taken by the police, who hit him in the eyes, which blinded him.
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WDIA
- A radio station dedicated to black people.
- It has such an impact (2nd most listened station) that had an international audience.
- All black artist played here, like Dorothy Dandridge who won an academy award.
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We Charge Genocide
-A petition from Paul Robeson, who was an actor and singer.
In the petition for the United Nations Discussing that what he experienced was a type of genocide.
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1st civil rights movement
- a nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. -black people were fighting for improvement for their rights.
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Claudette Colvin
-Occurred on March 5th.
- Was an African American teenager that was pregnant.
- she refused to move on a bus for a white person.
- Her story wasn´t so famous because she didn't fit in a "standard" because of being pregnant. -
Rosa Parks
-on December 1st.
-African American women.
- She was sitting on a bus when a white men came up to her and asked for her seat, and she refused.
-Her story was published because she filed in the "standard" they were looking for. -
Nashville
-African American passive march.
- protest about segregation and discrimination.
-which ended up in Nashville being the 1st place to desegregate their lunch counters. -
Student Revolt
- Around 50.00 students were in the protest.
- revolt about segregation and the difference in education with wite students.
- Ella Baker fights for the student's rights.
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University of Georgia
-University in Georgia.
- It was desegregated by Diane Nash.
-Hamilton Holmes also desegregated a university in the south. -
Dr. King.
- American Baptist minister and activist.
- he went to Detroit to speak to the black about the nonviolence movement that they should do. -wanted to spread the nonviolence acts in the north.
- he was against violent acts. always voted for nonviolence.
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Malcolm X
- African American leader and prominent figure who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism.
- He was in favor of violent acts.
- He influenced the north side of the US.
- Was against Dr. King.
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Great Walk of Freedom
- It happens in Detroit.
- It drew crowds of an estimated 125,000 or more.
- known as "the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history".
- After the walk, Dr. King gave an impassioned speech.
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Ruby Bridges
- Black 6 years old girl. -She was one of the 6 girls that went for the 1st time to a white people school.
- Ruby went to a school in New Orleans.
- The police escorted her, so the white people community could not harm her-
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Bloody Sunday
- About 600 people marched from Selma to Montgomery.
- It was a passive movement. Lewis (one of the main leaders) asked the demonstrators not to do violence.
- Authorities got angry for the movement, so tried to break them apart with violence.
- After that, King led a peaceful march, from the same places, which resulted in the congress enchanting the voting rights if 1965.
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March Against Fear
- James Meredith a law student.
- Marched across the south to encounter the racism in Mississippi Delta.
- He encourages African Americans in the state to register to vote.
- All this happen after the passage of civil rights.
- After 2 days of marching, and arriving in Mississippi he was brutally shot until death.
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Black Power
- A movement against racial oppression, to the establishment of social institutions and self-sufficient economy, including black-owned business.
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Martin Luther King
- April 4th
- Martin Luther King was assassinated. He stood on a balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
