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Plessy Vs Ferguson (Date)

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1896

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US Involvement in WW2

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1941-45

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Korean War Begins

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1950

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Brown v Board of Education

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1954

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War in Vietnam

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1955-75

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Sputnik

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1957

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Semiconductor Integrated Circuit

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1960

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JFK Assassinated

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1963

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Civil Rights Act

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1964

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MLK and Bobby Assassinated

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1968

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Woodstock and Harlem Cultural Festival

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1969

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Nixon Resigns

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1974

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Plessy Vs Ferguson (Info)

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separate but equal doctrine

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Brown V Board

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Linda Brown - tried to go to school near her but was told to go to the AA school across town - sued Topeka school board with the NAACP - got school segregation ruled unconstitutional

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Rosa parks want to challenge public transportation segregation but in jail - jo ann Robinson calls people to boycott busses - dramatic success

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SCLC

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southern Christian leadership conference - encourage AA to register to vote - MLK is the 1st president

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Why did school segregation go so slow?

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widespread resistance - mobs - state government/governors against it

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Did Eisenhower agree with Brown V Board? How did he respond?

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sympathized with the movement - idk add more

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Crisis In Little Rock

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9 AA student admitted to central high by the court - mainly white school - governor sends troops to prevent them from entering - faubus leaves AA to the mob after ike removes troops - violence tells ike he has to act - federal authority upheld - sends troops to escort them to school

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Sit-ins

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felt powerful - like they had done something - grew to 300 students - encouraging - sat in restaurant counters - non-violent protest - way for them to take matters into their own hands - endured shouting hitting and beating

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SNCC

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sit-ins and register voters - voter education project - help face violence to let southern AA vote - beaten and murdered registering voters

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Freedom Riders (kennedys respond as well)

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still public transportation segregation - jamer farmer - white mobs attacked them - firebombed - birmingham - beat off bus - bloody and beaten - police given the day off so no one was there to arrest or help the AA - officer had contacted the KKK to come beat them

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James Meredith

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AA air force veteran - tried to transfer to U of M which was “desegregated” - governor stopped him and wouldn’t let him transfer - JFK sends Marshals to escort him to campus - riot breaks out all night long - 160 Marshalls injured - attended school under federal guard all year

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Birmingham - Bull Connor

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Public safety commissioner - arranged the attack on the freedom Riders - ordered police dogs, clubs, and fire hoses to be used after king is released from jail - violence in birmingham

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Birmingham - Letter from birmingham
MLK writes while in jail with scrap pieces of paper - one of the most eloquent defenses of non-violence ever written - divine justice - even though they were breaking the law - they were doing it on a higher moral power - injustice had to be exposed - powerful
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Civil Rights Bill of 1964 - how did JFK being Assassinated help to get this passed?
LBJ becomes president - commits to JFK's civil rights bill/program - decides to take full charge - passes the bill through Congress bc he had better leadership and knew how to convince them
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Role of the March of Washington
led by MLK to gain public support of the civil rights bill of 1964
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Selma March
Selma was mostly AA but only 3% were registered to vote - Jim Clark was terrorizing AA to keep them from registering - MLK organizes a freedom march to montgomery (capital) - protest leads to 2,000 arrested - bloody Sunday - beaten while crossing the bridge - kids - put on tv- LBJ watches and responds - people shocked
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
house passes voting bill by wide margin - can't stop AA from registering to vote - voting quizzes or anything like that - 250,000 AA register to vote - AA elected in south - turning point
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Urban Problems
changing law didn't change attitudes - still in poverty - racism moved to big northern cities - low paying jobs - trapped in factories - earned 55% of what white people earned - unemployment double the whites - crime up and illness and infant mortality up - hope up but nothing is changing - erupted
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Watts Riot
5 days after voting rights act - allegation of police brutality - 14,000 national guard - 1,500 law officers - destroyed 45 million of property - murdered 34 people injured 900 - riots breaking out everywhere - detroit riot - worst - 42 killed, 1000 injured - had to send army with machine guns and tanks
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Black Power
urban young AA turning away from MLK - more aggressive and assertive approach or seperate states - kicked out white leaders in CORE and SNCC - self defense/violence - or control of struggle - pride/culture - racial distinctiveness
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Stokely Carmichael
leader of SNCC in 1966 - believed black power meant should control political, social, and economical direction of their struggle
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Malcolm X
symbol of black power movement - had a rough childhood - prison changed him - joined the black muslims - changed his name - broke with the black muslims - criticized them - shot by them - ideas of black power, nationalism, and economic self-sufficiency
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Black Panthers
believed revolution was necessary - urged AA to arm themselves and prepare - called for an end to oppression and control of AA institutions
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MLK Assassination
in Memphis for poor people campaign - shot on his hotel balcony - touched off national mourning and riots - led poor peoples campaign after death - didn't achieve major goals - CRM lacks unity and purpose that MLK brought - end of era - changed opportunities and society
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Lee Harvey Oswald
N/A - haven't learned yet?
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Isaac Woodard
asked to stop and go to the bathroom on the bus back from war - driver cursed him out and isaac scolded him back - driver looks for officer to remove isaac - officer beat him - gouged his eyes out - blinded him and put him in jail
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Emmett Till
mose right - uncle - only 14 - talked to a white women in the store - got killed for it - broke laws of segregation - was found naked deformed and drowned - open casket to show what they did - KKK or someone came and took him at night with a pistol and killed him - jury found them not guilty and then they confessed after trial - said they were superior and couldn't help it
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Medgar Evers
civil rights activist/soldier - NAACP - murdered
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16th St Church Bombing
church bombing - terrorist attack KKK - murdered 4 AA girls

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