Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

14th amendment passed

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1868: This constitutional amendment define citizenship and forbids any state from not giving citizens their rights and privileges

Question 2

Plessy V Ferguson Decision

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1896: the Supreme Court gives legal approval for Jim Crow laws as well as roles that separate but equal facilities for different races is legal.

Question 3

Booker T Washington writes Up From Slavery

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1901: he argues that a gradual process is based for the liberation of blacks and proceeds to focus on job training and suggests that self respect and self help would bring opportunities for black people

Question 4

Niagara movements

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1905: WEB DuBois demands immediate racial equality and is against all laws that treat black people differently this leads to the creation of the NAACP in 1909

Question 5

The creation of the NAACP

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1909

Question 6

The grandfather clause outlawed by the Supreme Court

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1915: the NAACP successfully challenged the state laws that restrict black voting registration

Question 7

Race riots and lynchings claim hundreds of lives

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1919: over 25 race riots occur in the summer of 1919
38 killed in Chicago
70 black ppl

Question 8

Executive order 88024 forbids race discrimination in hiring

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June 1941: the FDR is set up fair employment practices commission to make sure nondiscrimination policy is in federal hiring are done

Question 9

Japanese Americans sent to concentration camps

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1942: the FDR allows 110,000 to be rounded up in the western states (expect Hawaii) because of the concerns over potential disloyalty

Question 10

Korematsu V US

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1944 the supreme court declares that concentration camps are a wartime necessity 

Question 11

Jackie Robinson join is Brooklyn Dodgers

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1947 Pasadena resident and UCLA alumni Robinson are the 1st black to play major league baseball

Question 12

Armed Forces integrated

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1948: President Truman issues an executive order requiring integrated units in the Armed Forces

Question 13

Brown V board of education of Topeka decision

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1954: the Supreme Court reverses Plessy by stating that separate schools are on equal schools are ordered to desegregate immediately

Question 14

Southern manifesto urges resistance to desegregation efforts

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1956: Southern members of Congress sign a document to attack the Supremes courts decision. Over 100 signed and were protesting

Question 15

Little Rock Central high school desegregated

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Fall 1957: little rock school board voted to integrate schools
the National Guard troops prevent black children from attending school
1000 federal paratroopers are needed to squad black students to preserve peace.
ArKansas Gov. Faubus response by closing schools for 1958 to 1959 school year.

Question 16

Montgomery bus boycott

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1955 to 1957: Rosa Parks ignites 381 day bus boycott organised by MLK

Question 17

Lunch counter protests

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1961:10 men sat at a whites only counter in Rockhill South Carolina and got arrested
The Friendship nine were sentenced to 30 days labour on a chain gang.

Question 18

Freedom riders oppose segregation

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1961: Diverse crowd take buses to the south to protest bus station segregation. Upon arrival faced violent rioting

Question 19

James Meredith in roles at University of Mississippi

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1962: President Kennedy sent 5000 federal troops to allow Meredith to register for classes.
The riots which occur result in two deaths and hundreds of injuries.

Question 20

Desegregation Drive in Birmingham

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April 1963: king and SCLC (southern Christian leadership conference) oppose local laws that supports segregation .
Riots, fire bombings, and police are used against protesters

Question 21

Letter from Birmingham jail

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16 April 1963: in response to white ministers who urgent to stop causing disturbances, King issues statement of nonviolent resistance to the wrongs of American society

Question 22

GOV. Wallace tops desegregation of University of Alabama

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June 1963: After Gov. Wallace promised segregation today, tomorrow, and forever, Wallace is forced by President Kennedy to allow blacks to enroll

Question 23

Medgar Evers murdered

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11 June 1963: head of Mississippi NAACP is shot outside as home
same night the president Kennedy addresses the nation “are we to say the world… That this is a land of free except for Negroes”

Question 24

March on Washington

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28 August 1963: more than 200,000 diverse crowd of people gather before Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches and protest racial injustice

Question 25

Bombing of Birmingham church

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September 1963: for black girls are killed by bomb planted in the church

Question 26

24th amendment passed

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January 1964: poll-tax is outlawed.
Black voter registration increases and candidates begin to turn away from white supremacist views to attract black voters

Question 27

Civil rights act passed

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July 1964: overcome Senette filibuster,
Congress passes law forbidding racial discrimination many areas of life, including amendments

Question 28

Mississippi summer freedom project

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Summer 1964: civil rights workers seek to register a black ppl to vote
Violent reaction results to three are killed and many black homes and churches are burned.
National outrage helps pass civil rights legislation

Question 29

Selma to Montgomery march

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March 1965: MLK leads 54 mile march to Montgomery in support black voter registration despite attacks from police and interference from government Wallace.
President Johnson addresses the nation in support of marches 

Question 30

Voting rights act approved

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6 August 1965: after passage, southern black voter registration grows by over 50% and back officials are elected to various positions.
In Mississippi, black voter registration grew by six times.

Question 31

NAACP

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National Association for the advancement of coloured people 1909

Question 32

CORE

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Congress of racial equality 1942

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SNCC

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Student non-violent coordinating committee 1960

Question 34

Freedom of speech

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Freedom from want

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People are not in need of the basic necessities being food, water, clothing and shelter

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Freedom from fear

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One can sleep safely at night without being afraid of being under attack

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Freedom of assembly

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This gives everyone the right together to discuss an issue or protest against a grievance

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Politics

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Freedom to vote

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So that everyone would have a say in the democratic government

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Passive resistance

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Confrontation without any violence or force

Question 41

Sit ins

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Protist where volunteers sit down on demand service in segregated restaurants where they would not normally be served

Question 42

Idealist

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Someone who believes that it is possible to achieve ideals even when this is unrealistic

Question 43

Why people find it necessary to engage in civil protest (especially in the 1960’s)

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→Make themsleves heard and change aspects of society that are wrong
→1960’s=Public didn’t believe the government in the west was acting on their best interests therefore institutions Of Democracy lost meaningful link with their people their desire for social change.
→1950’s= conservative period in the west
→The West was prosperous from works War two and established welfare for poverty. People were secure and experimented with new ideas.
→Increased Industrialisation=Environmental Degradation
→Cold War=increased tensions and passion of nuclear arms, war in Vietnam

Question 44

Analysis of Black civil rights movement

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→Example to show effectiveness popular mass protests
→Did not go fat enough to call for greater assertiveness
→Did Not tackle problems in American South