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Congress of Racial Equality
Civil Rights- Your right to do something -
Dodgers hire Jacky Robinson
Color-Line- African Americans going into white sports like Football Basketball and Baseball and playing together. -
Executive Order 9981
Segregation- grouped by race, ending race segregation in military -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam, Malcom X- In 1965 3 members of the Nation of Islam assassinated Malcom X.
Malcom X influenced many black leaders in the civil rights movement to include Stokely Carmichael. -
Brown v Board of Education Ruling
Brown vs Board of Education- The supreme court thought it was unconstitutional to segregate in public schools
Thurgood Marshall- he was a lawyer for african american children -
Mont Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus boycott was in 1955 where African Americans boycotted the bus and it integrated of Montgomery, Alabama bus system -
Integration of Central High school
Little Rock Nine- In September of 1962, James Meredith, a African American attempted to enrolled at the University of Mississippi; his actions resulted in a riot. Angry white students burned cars and destroyed property. The white students did want Meredith to attend and burned cars and also in the riot 2 men were killed. -
First Lunch Counter Sitin
sit-in Sitting in a public facility as a means of peaceful protesting
-Jim Crow Laws: laws that made racial segregation okay in the south
-African american college kids went into Wooksworth Everyday
- THese stydents were often attacked by white customers and some owners -
Freedom Riders
Blacks and Whites ride the bus together to see whether southern states were complying with to the Supreme Court ruling against segregation on interstate transport
Civil Disobedience- respectfully not following orders -
March on Washington
a protest that more than 250,000 people marched in the nation's capital for "jobs and freedom" and the passage of civil rights legislation -
King Advocates Nonviolence in “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Martin Luther made a letter in jail in Birmingham -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Plessy v ferguson 1896 case that determined separate but equal facilities
Originally Kennedy's idea, President Johnson was able to get Passed
-Civil rights act banned discrimination -
Registering African American Voters in a Freedom Summer
A campaign by CORE and SNCC to register black voters in Mississippi -
From Watts to Newark: Riots in the Streets
a Riot due to a black ghetto in Los Angeles that caused by frustrations about poverty, prejudice, and police mistreatment
Kerner commission- said the riot was caused by frustrations -
Black Panther Party
A group demanding economic and political rights and would go into violence to do so.
Black Power- using violence in protest -
The Civil rights act of 1968
Discrimination- a law that included a ban on discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, or sex. This law is also known Fair Housing Act. -
Swann v Charkotte-Mecklenberh Board of Education
Desegregation- This landmark is ruling lead the way for integration of students through the use of busing. -
Regents of the University of California v, Bakke
Affirmative action- The landmark Supreme Court ruling open the door for race to be a determining factor in the admission of students to higher education. It is important to note that race cannot be the only factor in determining admission to school.
