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who was the mother of the civil rights movement

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rosa parks

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what started the civil rights movement

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rosa parks’ bus boycott

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grass roots movement

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a movement that starts at a low level, something that happens organically within a community, not something started in government nor a top down approach

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why was the 50’s the right time to start the civil rights movement

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30s was the depression
40s was the war
50s was economic prosperity

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4t’s

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  1. television
    - witness the protests and the inequity, blacks watching popular white shows and going hey we don’t got that
  2. teenagers
    - the next generation of new pescpatives, open minded people, more liberal, and more free time and less at stake
  3. talent
    - we’ve got all these people like mlk, rosa parks, little rock 9, ed nixon, thurgood marshall
  4. truman
    - democrat, integrates military with executive order because of thoughts of ww2 vets
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why was elvis important

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many teenagers went to his concerts and they were integrated, both blacks and whites were allowed to go and they didn’t have to stay in separate areas

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thurgood marshall

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  • head lawyer for naacp
  • defend blacks imprisoned for protesting
  • first black supreme court justice
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people in govt who helped

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(all democrats)
- john f kennedy
- robert f kennedy
- lindon b johnson
- truman

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reconstruction amendments

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13, 14, 15

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13th amendment

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slavery and involuntary servitude are illegal except for punishment as a crime

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14th amendment

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No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws

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15th amendment

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guaranteed African-American men the right to vote. Almost immediately after ratification, African Americans began to take part in running for office and voting.

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dred scott vs. sandford (1857)

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he said living in free territory should make him a free slave, but slaves aren’t people they have no rights, they are property
invalidates missouri compromise

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black codes

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jim crow laws are a form of legal segregation

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plessy vs ferguson 1896

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separate but equal
he’s 1/16th black and buys a ticket in the white section and they say no and arrest him

supreme court said separe car act was perfectly legal, it was a way to sidestep the 14th amendment

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jim crow laws

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affected every aspect of daily life
state laws that legalized segregation and disenfranchisement based on race –> sidestepping the 14th

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what is etiquette

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expected behavior in a certain setting, unspoken social norms

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lynching

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an unlawful public murder, often by hanging, carried out by angry mobs

white people used lynchings to control and terrorize black people mostly in the south

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what were lynchings to kkk

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public spectacles that celebrated and preserved white supremacy

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what sparked the civil rights movement

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murder of emmett till

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brown vs board of ed

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separate school systems for Black students and white students were inherently unequal, and a violation of the “Equal Protection Clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

brown won

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how was brown vs board of ed outcome bad

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white people felt they were losing control so hiyah killed emmett till

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how did they fund the boycott

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dances on wednesdays

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they were involved in nonviolent protests but met with

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violence

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who chaperoned the kids

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rosa parks

26
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did mlk believe in violence

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no

27
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people were mad at the crm activists so they

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sent death threats, bombed their houses and churches

28
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kkk put dynamite in mlk’s house and blew it up so blacks

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came to his house with weapons to defend it and he was like we will rise above and not meet them with violence, then they started singing

29
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colvette colban

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did the same thing as rosa parks but she was an unwed mother so that looks bad for the movement

30
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what was important to the civil rights movement

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song

31
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when was the eisenhower administration

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1953-61

32
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did eisenhower support civil rights

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nope, he was a gradualist

33
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what party was eisenhower

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republican but liked by both sides

34
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earl warren

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chief justice appointed by eisenhower, even though he’s a democrat

becomes eisenhower’s biggest regret because he votes against him

35
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the warren court…

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addressed issues ignored by eisenhower and congress

a very influential court

36
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naacp

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national association for the advancement of colored peoples

37
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where the attention focused in the late 40s

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desegregation of schools

38
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how did they first combat desegregation of schools

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encouraged black parents to attempt to enroll their children in public schools but requests were denied because schools were controlled by the states

39
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requests for black enrollment in public schools was denied. what was the result

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class action lawsuit was filed by naacp

40
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stare decisis

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let the decision stand

41
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precedent

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action/decision regarded as an example or guide for everything else to follow

42
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what’s odd about brown vs boe

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the precedent from plessy vs ferguson doesnt hold

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majority opinion

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5 or more justices

44
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minority opinion

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dissenting opinion

45
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concurring opinion

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agree with the majority but for different reasons

46
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clark doll study

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1939 study to evaluate the self esteem of african american children - done through preference for white or brown dolls

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amicus curiae

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friend of the court

48
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declaration of constitutional principles

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pledged resistance to brown vs boe passed by southern senators and congressmen

49
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were classrooms integrated immediately

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no. 10 years after the decision only 2 percent of elgible blacks were in integrated classrooms

50
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how did eisenhower respond to brown vs boe

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refused to issue a public statement

51
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little rock 9

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9 black students, hand picked so there wouldn’t be any problems

ernest green, elizabeth eckford, minnie jean brown

52
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states did not follow integration

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resisted brown case and shut down alabama naacp

53
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autherine lucy

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black female who attended university of alabama but the school suspended her “for her own safety” because a mob protested her attendence
she sued the school and won but the school just expelled her

54
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anti-integration chant

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2,4,6,8 we don’t want to integrate

55
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what did autherine lucy’s case show

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showed whites specifically that violence and riots were the answer to segregation

56
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why did faubus mobolize the state national guard

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to prevent the little rock 9 from going to school

57
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are schools under state or federal power

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state but supremacy clause

58
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supremacy clause

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the Constitution and federal laws (of the types listed in the first part of the Clause) take priority over any conflicting rules of state law

59
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how did people react to the little rock 9

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there were mobs to prevent the kids from going to school, attacking all black people they saw around them

60
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how did eisenhower react to little rock 9

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sent in paratroopers to escort each kid to school, and each kid was assigned their own soldier

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