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What connection might the Haywood and the scottsboro boys have to the coming civil rights movement ?

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The connection is

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In what year did the Scottsboro boys case take place and where?

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It was 1931 and it was in Alabama

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Who handles the appeals process and the next trial ?

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The ILD - international Labor Defense, legal arm of the Communist Party USA it is chosen and a second trial is awarded and Patterson is still found guilty :(

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Who was Samuel Leibowitz ?

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A star lawyer from the North defends the scottsboro boys in 1933

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Haywood was found guilty for the third time. What will happen and what is it decided in + what year?

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There was an appeal again but this time blacks were excluded from the jury pool where the Supreme Court agreed and this was decided on the Norris v. Alabama in 1935

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What connection might the Mamie Till episode have to the coming civil rights movement ?

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There was a start to give African Americans the rights they deserve and show others what what black a are going through to start a movement this will lead to outrage that will help fuel efforts to change conditions for AA.

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Where did Emmett Till go over in the summer from where ? In what Year ?

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He is sent from Chicago to spend the summer with relatives in Mississippi in 1955

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What does Emmet Till do?

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Talks fresh to a white woman and says bye baby

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What happens to Emmet Till?

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He is abducted and murdered by the woman’s husband and brother in law where they were found innocent by an all white jury

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What did Mamie Till do to bring attention to what happened?

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Open casket funeral, publication ion of photos and speaking tour

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Haywood was found guilty for the third time. What will happen and what is it decided in + what year?

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There was an appeal again but this time blacks were excluded from the jury pool where the Supreme Court agreed and this was decided on the Norris v. Alabama in 1935

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What connection might the Mamie Till episode have to the coming civil rights movement ?

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There was a start to give African Americans the rights they deserve and show others what what black a are going through to start a movement this will lead to outrage that will help fuel efforts to change conditions for AA.

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Where did Emmett Till go over in the summer from where ? In what Year ?

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He is sent from Chicago to spend the summer with relatives in Mississippi in 1955

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What does Emmet Till do?

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Talks fresh to a white woman and says bye baby

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What happens to Emmet Till?

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He is abducted and murdered by the woman’s husband and brother in law where they were found innocent by an all white jury

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What did Mamie Till do to bring attention to what happened?

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Open casket funeral, publication of photos and speaking tour

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What were the tactics and the effects of the civil rights movement ?

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Brown v. Board case in 1954
Private firms involved in interstate transportation 1955
Outlawed segregation in waiting rooms, lunch counters and restroom facilities for interstate passengers, 1960s
Sit in in Greensboro in 1960
Little Rock Nine, 1957
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-56
After all of this there are launched rides into the upper south in 1947
And then freedom rides in lower south, 1961
Result: helps fuel the momentum for federal
Legislation to end segregation in places of public accommodation in general which is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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What was the Brown v.s Board case and what does it attack?

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If is for education in schools and it fights the separate but equal doctrine

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Where did the federal troops defend nine black students?

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Little Rock, Arkansas

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Where did CORES Freedom ride end ?

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Birmingham, Alabama

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Where was Emmett Till murdered?

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Money, Mississippi

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Where were the Scottsboro boys arrested?

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Paint Rock, Alabama

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Where did Leibowitz defend the Scottsboro boys?

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Decatur, Alabama

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In what way did the civil rights movement change course during the second half of the 1960s ? Why was it less successful?

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Mlk decided to focus on economic inequality in the North with a non violent philosophy. He was focusing on housing discrimination which is called the Chicago freedom movement in 1966 It helps fuel the trend towards radicalization and Martin Luther King is assassinated in 1968

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What helps fuel the trend towards radicalization ?

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In culture- Black power salute in 1968 olympics 
Approach with the Black Panthers 
Cicero March, 1966 
Malcolm X 
Objective of MLK left leanings views
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When was the Watts riot ?

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1965

27
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What was the fair housing act?

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In 1968, MLK met with community leaders to forge agreement on this but blacks fear it’s empty promises

28
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Where was MLK’s freedom movement, cover march ?

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Chicago, Illinois

29
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Where were the black panthers formed ?

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Oakland, Ca

30
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Why did the Boston busing happen and what years?

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It happened because a great deal of whites were in opposition of blacks to get special opportunities In education, employment, and business
In happened in the years of 1974-1975

31
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What was affirmative action?

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Providing blacks special opportunities in education employment and business

32
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What was the bake case ?

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Had earlier struck down quotas in 1978

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What was the gratz case and when ?

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Strikes down the use of automatic point allocations I’m 2003 and wins!

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What was the grutter case and when ?

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Grutter case was in 2003 and upheld race as a legitimate

Consideration

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What was the initiative 200?

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It was in Washington’s states in 1998 for similar legislation in other states

36
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What was the MCRI / proposal 2?

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Civil

Rights initiative in 2006 but then upheld by the Supreme Court in 2014

37
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Where the the busing episode take place?

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In Boston Massachusetts

38
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Where did the bakke case start?

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UC Davis

39
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Who was Nicole Brown Simpson?

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O j wife where he was charged of her murder

40
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Who was Mark Fuhrmam ?

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A racist cop the went against blacks

41
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La riot

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Happened because of Rodney King beating in 1992

42
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What did Johnnie Cochran do to preside innocence for Simpson?

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Emphasized any racist sentiments associated with the in investigators

43
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How did the US deal with the the threat and the reality of Japanese expansion/ aggression?

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They

44
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Where did Simpsons trial take place?

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Los Angeles California

45
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What was the incarceration rate for blacks ?

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1 out of three black guys goes to jail!

Out of one black woman 18 how to jail!

46
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How did the US deal with the treat of Japanese expansion?

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They oil embargo in 1941 and take away the ABCD encirclement and because if this the Japanese plan war in spring of 1941

47
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How was the Japanese expansion seen again?

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Puppet state of Manchuria in 1931
Withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933
Refusal to sign new naval treaty 1936
Invasion of China 1937
The sinking US navy ship the Panay in China 1937

48
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Why was the Washington conference held?

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To
Stop Japanese expansion or limit the size of its navy

There is wary peace In 1920’s

49
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How did some try to keep the US uninvolved in the European entanglements?

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Americans were isolationist by the League of Nations
Ludlow Amendment
Neutrality acts

50
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In what way might their efforts been contrary to the goal of world peace?

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Nations will not be united and this can cause war problems

51
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How did FDR try to aid the allies?

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By selling weapons and then exchanging ships for land rights on British possessions. Where the the lend lease act threat sold and gave war material that’s ere supposes see to be repaid
After war

52
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What was the American First committee?

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It was anti war groups in 1940

53
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Why’s was the cash and carry?

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The British can buy weapons but must send their ships to do so

54
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What was the destroyers for bases agreement?

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This was let to exchange ships for

Land rights in British possessions in 1940

55
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What was the Altlantic Charter?

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Goals
Set for post-war world
To stop from getting to world
War three

56
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When was the Pearl Harbor ?

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December 7th 1941 on Sunday

57
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Doolittle raid

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April 1942 and was the Americans in a air raid against the Japanese. Destroyed some of ther or territory

58
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What happened about the coral sea?

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Americans wanted to prevent the Japanese expansion and the us found out how to stop this in May 1942

59
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What wee Sthe is carriers called?

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Hornet and enterprise and Yorktown

60
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Whet were some of the reasons for strong nativist sentiments in the us ?

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Immigrants will negatively transform the American socity by religion- Catholic, orthodox and Jewish
Won’t be fully loyal threat to jobs
Many are communists
Blamed for slum and crime

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What was the immigration act of 1917?

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There has to be a literacy test taken by immigrants except Asians

62
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What was the immigration act of 1921?

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There was a restriction of 3% of 1910 census

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What was the 1924 immigration act?

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2% of 1890 census

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