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Emancipation Proclamation
Allowed inslaved people to become free.
More than 3 million were freeded
Changed the south from slave to free -
14 Admendment
Granted citizenship to all born or naturalised in the U.S.
Included reciently freeded slaves.
Prevents states from not giving equal rights. -
Jim Crow Laws
Inforced segeration
Exact date not listed
Created the "seperate but equal"
Example Colored room White room. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Video
Court case against train car segeration
Court for train company "seperate but equal"
Used 14 admendment to testify -
No descrimination in Defence Contracts
Roosevent signs that discrimination will not be allowed in defence postions
included factories -
Brown vs Board of Education
Video
Court case for black child to go to white school because it was closer.
Court choose brown ,segerated schools were not ok anymore .
Caused alot of problems. -
Emmett Till
Killed for calling white women "Baby".
White men that killed him found not guilty
Later admited to killing him after time was up. -
Rosa Parks
Refuses to give up seat for white person.
Arrested for negligance
Caused Montgomery -
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Lunch counter sit ins
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Freedon Rides
Organised by Congress of Racial Equality
Used interstates to the South
Beaten by mobs -
March on Washington
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Birmingham church is bombed
Kills 4 injurs 17
Bombing aganst civil rights
Causes problems -
Detroit Riots
Major riots 43 dead
Worst the nation has seen
Sparks other riots - Tampa, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Newark, Plainfield and Brunswick -
Dr. King Assassination
Shot at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
Age 39
Shocked nation
