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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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“separate but equal” wasn’t in violation of 14th amendment

NAACP: systematic attack against “separate but equal”
- 5 cases together

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NAACP

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Group formed in 1909 to fight courts to end segregation and ensure black rights

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Brown vs. Board

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  • formed in 1954
  • was a unanimous decision
  • determined “separate educational facilities” was unequal
  • violation of Equal Protection Clause of 14th amendment
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Louis Redding

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  • 1st black attorney in DE
  • File lawsuit for Shirley Bulan. Board of ED banned her to use white bus that drove past her house
  • 2nd lawsuit on Ethel Belton: not allowed to attend all white school
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Emmitt Till

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    1. 14 year old boy visit family in Mississippi
  • Violates norm by talking fresh to white woman
  • Beaten, stabbed and shot. found in river with fan around neck
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Rosa Parks

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  • Refused to give up her seat
  • Her civil disobedience sparked Boycott
  • became important symbol in modern civil rights movement
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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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  • African Americans didn’t ride bus
  • Carpooled, walked, car owners became taxi drivers
  • 1956- outlawed segregation on buses in US
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Little Rock Nine

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-Made plans to desegregate public schools
-9 black students integrated central high school
-Crowd outside of school
• violence, national guard protection

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James Meredith/Ole Miss

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  • Integrated Ole Miss. Graduated in 1963
  • Governor of Mississippi vowed no blacks entering Ole Miss
  • JFK/RFK secured Merediths rights. Marshals protected him
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SCLC

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Southern Christian Leader Conference

  • Founded by MLK + Southern clergy in 1957
  • Sit ins + boycotts. Used water jets/dogs to control protesters
  • Media coverage. Kennedy intervenes
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SNCC

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Student Non-Violent Coordinating Comitee

  • Founded in 1960
  • Involve students/young blacks
  • Became separate, independent organizations
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CORE

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  • Congress of racial equality
  • Founded in 1942
  • Wanted to bring change through peaceful confrontation
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Sit-in

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  • Protesters sat in segregated white public places

- Food thrown in then. kicked out. violence broke out

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MLK

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  • leader of CRM
  • Used non violence methods
  • clergyman
  • Activist
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Malcom X

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-10 years in prison
- converts to islam. Joins NOI
-Believed whites worked actively from blacks empowering/succeeding
•fought for state not with people
-becomes disillusioned

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Freedom Riders

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  • Blacks and some whites rode buses through south to challenge laws
  • Violence breaks out. Jailed and beaten. Mobs
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Black Panthers

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  • Militant + political organization for self defense
  • founded in Oakland by Huey Newton/Bobby Seale in 1966
  • Protect /control residents from police brutality
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March on Washington

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  • 1963
  • 200,000 to 500,000 attend
  • “i have a dream” speech
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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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  • Outlaws racial segregation

- ends unequal application voter registration requirements + racial segregation in schools/workplace

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Voting Rights Acts

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  • ended use of literacy and other tests to qualify to vote
  • 1965- quarter million black voters
  • didn’t end turmoil
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24th Amendment

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ends poll tax

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What was the importance of Brown vs. Board of Education?

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Paved way for Civil Rights Movement

-“Separate educational facilities” are unequal and violated 14th amendment

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What was the “norm” for blacks in US throughout this time period ?

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  • to act and follow the laws of segregation

- “separate but equal”

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List some events that led to accelerated change in status black people in this time period?

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  • Watts Riots
  • MLK death
  • March on Washington
  • 16th Street Baptist Church
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What are some methods used to bring change within society? Which do you think are the most successful and why?

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Sit-ins, marches, protests, freedom rides, boycotts

  • Boycotts hurt the economy because they lost money when blacks stopped riding buses
    •influenced + pressed them to change their laws
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What laws were passed during 1860s to help ensure the rights of minorities?

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  • Civil Right Act
  • Voting Rights Act
  • 24th amendment
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How do you think the Civil Rights legislation changed America?

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Yes because it helped the desegregation between races and it help black Americans become equal and not treated so poorly

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What was the importance of Plessy vs. Ferguson decision?

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  • “separate but equal” became the norm
  • influenced the Brown vs Board case
  • NAACP

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