paper 1:quest for civil rights achievements Flashcards
what was the 1926 sweet trial?
doctor Ossian sweet and his family moved into a predominantly white neighbourhood in Detroit in 1925, whites protested and harassed the family, following a friend of sweet shooting a young man the whole household was put on trial and the NAACP successfully protected them
what was the 1936 Gaines v Canada?
Supreme Court orders the university of Missouri to take black students
what was the 1946 Morgan v virginia?
Supreme Court overturns a virginia state law segregating buses and trains that moved from one state to the other
what was the 1948 Shelley v Kramer?
bans regulations that bar black people from buying houses in an are in any state
what was the 1950 sweat v painter and mclaurin v Oklahoma?
it desegregates graduate and professional schools in Texas and Oklahoma
what was the 1954 brown v board of education of Topeka?
desegregates schools: first use of evidence that, as well as unequal provision, segregation was psychologically harmful for black School children
