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USA Civil Rights C1 (Development of Civil Rights Movement) Flashcards

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Federal Government

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  • controls whole country

- congress passed laws

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State Government + significance

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  • each state could pass laws unless overruled

- significant for discrimination against black Americans

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The Jim Crow Laws

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  • 14th Amendment said that all people should be treated equally
  • but Jim Crow laws enforced segregation and discrimination as it said black people were inferior, violence is acceptable to keep black people in check ext
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Why would attitudes in the south unlikely to change?

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  • saw black people as inferior, unintelligent

- police/ court rooms full of racists

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3 main factors for the growth of the civil rights

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Education- black people could look smarter
New ideas- scientific research no race inferior
WW2- black people thought with white people

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Significance of George Lee, Lamar Smith and Emmet Till murders

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  • publicity and public outrage
  • white people getting away with racism
  • more support for civil rights
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4 main opposition to civil rights

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  • KKK (Racist group)
  • Southern Churches (integration sin)
  • Dixiecrats (Racist brake away party)
  • Southern state governors (black judges/juries banned)
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What was the brown v board of education?

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  • 5 desegregation cases to supreme court
  • judges ruled against them not being equal
  • 2nd time judges ruled desegregation carried out with deliberate speed
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Short Term success of brown v board

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  • plessy was reversed
  • many more legal victories
  • southern schools desegregation
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3 Failures of brown v board

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  • many protests against
  • black people became violence targets
  • Schools threatened to shut down
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Long term effects of brown v board

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  • black people better off in not going to these new schools
  • NAACP fell
  • white flight
  • desegregation was slow
  • black teachers lost jobs
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What happened at Little Rock High School?

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  • only 25 black people accepted
  • group went in despite being told not to
  • girl got beaten
  • lots of photographers became famous
  • Eisenhower sent troops to protect them
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Significance of Little Rock

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  • forced president to take action
  • triggered 1957 Civil Rights Act
  • world wide attention
  • reopened schools had to have black and white students
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How did white people oppose integrated schools?

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  • petitions and campaigns
  • threatened families
  • violence increased
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What did schools do to stop integration?

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  • allowed less black students
  • segregation within the school
  • psychological tests biased against black people
  • schools would exclude black people for causing riots
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How did the NAACP and CORE help desegregation in schools?

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Sent representatives to families to help them through the difficult times

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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  • Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up seat for white man
  • Montgomery Improvement Association set up to carry out non-violent boycotts
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4 main qualities of MLK

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Educated, peaceful, passionate and religious

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Importance of Boycotts

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  • organised events attracted support
  • MLK came into the spotlight
  • publicity
  • hard to oppose them as they were peaceful
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2 Successes of Boycotts

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  • buses desegregated in Montgomery

- demonstrated courage, resourcefulness and leadership

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4 failures of Boycotts

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  • white back lash
  • Houses of leaders bombed
  • shootings on buses
  • bus stops remained segregated
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Significance Of civil rights act of 1957

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  • first one for nearly 100 years
  • persecute anybody who denied people’s rights
  • south didn’t follow this as all white jury denied cases
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The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) 4 key policies

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  • protest all forms of segregation
  • non violent approach
  • mass action
  • black and white membership
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SNCC

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Student Nonviolent coordinating committee

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CORE

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Congress of Racial Equality

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SCLC

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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