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1955

Civil Rights

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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1956

Civil Rights

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South Carolina outlawed bus segregation

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1957

Civil Rights

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Little Rock 9 desegregate public schools

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1962

Civil Rights

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James Meredith integrates college (Ole Miss)

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1963

Civil Rights

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March on Washington. “I have a dream” speech. Point of march was to pass Civil Rights Bill of 1964, which outlawed segregation

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1964

Civil Rights

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Freedom Summer.

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1965

Civil Rights

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  • Riots break out
  • Selma Campaign
  • Malcolm X Shot Civil rights bill of 1965, which outlawed literacy tests
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1968

Civil Rights

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  • Kerner Commission
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968, which banned housing discrimination
  • Martin Luther King Jr. shot
  • Bobby Kennedy shot
  • Democratic Convention
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Civil Rights

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different from civil liberties, equal protection under the law

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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  1. Began with Rosa Parks. Sparked an organized movement to act. Montgomery Improvement Association organized it. Led by MLK Jr. 90% of AA community participated, boycotted for 381 days.
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De jure Segregation

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segregation by law

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De facto segregation

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segregation by fact or custom

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Freedom Summer

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registering black voters. Klansmen begin racial beatings and murders along with burning businesses, churches and homes

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Kerner Commission

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  1. Issued its report appointed by Johnson; said that our nation is moving towards 2 societies; one black and one white- seperate and unequal. Called for: new jobs, new housing, and end defacto segregation
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“War on Poverty”

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Quote from LBJ in response to lots of riots. Wanted to try to “end poverty for good”, failed financially due to the war in Vietnam

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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  1. Brown wins, segregation in schools is illegal and wrong. Supreme Court unanimously struck down segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the 14th Amendment
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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Came up with strategy to fight for black rights in the court

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KKK

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Klu Klux Klan. Made up of white southeners looking to keep blacks 2nd in society. Did many vicious crimes to AAs, such as lynchings.

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MIA

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Montgomery Improvement Association. Organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Black Panthers

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political party for AAs to fight police brutality in the ghettos.

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Little Rock 9

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9 High School students who integrated High School in Alabama

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Led Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington and Selma. Wanted non-violent resistance, called “Soul Force”.

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Malcolm X

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African American Muslim minister and civil rights activist. Wanted confrontation from AAs. Preached about Racial Pride, advocated for armed self-defense. Attitudes towards whites changed after trip to Mecca. Assassinated in 1965

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Seperate but Equal

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term used after Plessy vs. Fergusen to support segregation

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Jim Crow Laws

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An example of de facto segregation, this seperated social and religious contact. Facilities provided for blacks were always inferior, accompanied with humiliatig signs, such as “colored water”, “No blacks allowed”, “Whites only”.

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Sit-ins

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SNCC harnessed the energy of black students by organizing these where blacks would sit in a white-only lunch counter and refuse to leave until they were served. They were trained to take whatever tormenting or harm.

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non-violent resistance

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phrase coined by MLK Jr, means that blacks were never to respond to segregation and unequal treatment with violence of any kind.

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Black Power

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term coined by Stokely Carmichael. A call for black people to take back control with violence.

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Civil Rights act of 1875

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tried to outlaw segregation after civil war, but Plessey vs. Fergusen over ruled it.

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Plessy vs. Fergusen

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  1. Plessy, an AA, says that Jim Crow laws are unconstitutional. The supreme court rules segregation is legal as long as facilities are “separate but equal”.
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SNCC

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Organized Student sit-ins

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SCLC

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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CORE

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Congress of Racial Equality. Continued sit-ins in Northern cities, such as Chicago.

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Rosa Parks

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refuse to give up her bus seat. Unofficially started Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Freedom Riders

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black and white activists who started to ride busses throughout the south and were abused with extreme brutality.

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