Progress in education Flashcards
Describe, segregation, discrimination, and voting rights in the Southern States
Segregation: the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others
Racial Discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment based on race
Black people had to complete an extra hard literacy test to be allowed to vote: faced violence
Who were the NAACP and CORE and when were they found
NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( 1909)
CORE: Congress of Racial Equality (1942)
Both groups were set up to achieve equality in education, politics and daily life for black Americans
Key points about Brown v Topeka (1954)
Linda BROWN wanted to go to a school closer to her home which was a white-only school.
Took this case to the supreme court
Was backed by NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall
Supreme court ruled segregation in schools UNCONSTITUTIONAL and school were told to desegregate
What were the immediate and long-term effects of Brown v Topeka?
Some schools desegrated successfully without too much violence
The WCC (White Citizens Council) was set up to stop integration
Black students faced a lot of violence and threats if they went to a white school
What was the significance of The Little Rock Nine and what happened?
Took place on the 4th of September 1957
9 black students attempted entering a previously white-only school but were stopped by governor Orval Faubus
President Eisenhower sent 1,000 troops for their protection and let them go to school
The first time a president got involved in Civil rights
Elizabeth Eckford of one of the 9
