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Brown v Board of Education
Brown v Board of Education: the 1954 Supreme Court ruling declaring that segregation
Class action lawsuit: a lawsuit that is filled by people
She had to walk seven miles to get to school
the school that was closest to them was for whites -
Jackie Robinson
color line: a law that separated the whites from the blacks
Negro leagues: a black league for baseball players
Started around the end of World War 2
was the first black to play baseball -
executive order 9981
Executive order 9981: an executive order ending segration in the military
it gave everybody an opportunity
congress of racial equality: an organization that dedicated through the civil rights
founded in 1942 -
Core founded
founded in 1942 for the civil rights movement
Congress of racial equality: reform through nonvilent action
Great migration: where one goes to one spot
Thougrood Marshall was the head of the group -
Briginham campiange
Martian Luther King called it the most segrated city
SCLC: The southern Christian leadership conference
did after the Montgomery bus boycott ended
lead by Fred L. Shuttleswhorth -
Civils right act of 1964
March on Washington: a protest so that blacks can get jobs
Philip Randolph proposed the march in 1941
Civil rights act of 1964: a act that banned the discrimination on the basics of race
passed and signed into law on July 2, 1964 -
Lunch counter sit in
blacks sat down in white lunch counters
SNCC: nonvilionet action and sit ins
Civil disobedience: the nonviolent refusal to obey a law
did not want see any violence -
Freedom rides
Freedom rides: wear whites and blacks rode interstate buses together
on May 4, 1961 7 blacks and 6 whites rode the bus together
some wanted them gone others didn't
James Farmer proclaimed victory for the freedom rides -
Central High School
There were 9 integrating students
They were all called out
NAACP: National association for the advancement of colored people
What it is to ensure education to blacks -
March on Washington
March on Washington: a protest that more than 250,000 people participated in
the goal was to protest for the blacks
The king inspired the world with his dream
It is I have a dream speech -
bus boycott start
bus boycott: Where a black doesn't get up for a white
Rosa Parks refused to get up
She did it in the state of Alabama
E.D Nixon asked if parks could do a case around her arrest -
Voting rights acts of 1965
Freedom summer: a organization for blacks to vote
Voting rights act of 1965: congress outlawing literacy tests
More than 900 people signed up for the freedom summer
federal intervention wold not turn down eligible voters -
Advocates for black Nationalism
black nationalism: a doctrine promoted by the national of Islam
Malcolm X also rejected nonviolence
Black Muslims worked to be independent
leaders of nonviolent can go to the white company -
bakke vs califorina
ruling for blacks to attend
did not end the debate
it was deeply divided
thought that it could be a citation -
Black Panther Party Founded
Black Power: group of activists that were not focused on nonviolent
SNCC: Student Nonviolent coordinating committee
blacks and the Nation of Islam were infnlucened by the leaders
Malcom X, Heuy Newton and Bobby Steale
were ok with -
1968 civil rights
a law that included a ban on discrimination
included a fair-housing component
assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
founded it difficult to buy houses -
Swann V. Charolette- board of education
It was a ruling for school integration
it was appealed
they were forced to intergrate
it raised question where it was located -
Swan v Charlotte
desegration: ending the separation of people by race
School and the blacks who are being bussed to the school
bussing is a way for schools to desgrate -
watts riot
1965 race riot
lasted six long days
erupted in 30 cities
cause was police brutality