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Congress of Racial Equality Founded
-Civil Rights: protect individual freedom from the government
- group of students founded
-counseled migrants and black social workers
-first action was a sit in at a segregated coffee shop -
Dodgers hire Jackie Robinson
-color line: barrier that separated whites and nonwhites
- Jackie robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers
-other sports started to allow black athletes -
Executive order 9981
-truman signed the executive order which made all men equal in the armed forces
-African americans would not fight in a segregated army -
Brown v. Board of Education ruling
-Thurgood Marshall, argued for Brown in the case. NAACPs lawyer
-public schools became de-segregated
- linda brow, wanted to go to a white school closer to home
- case was argued in front of Warren court -
Integration of Central Highschool
-Little rock 9 were the first black kids to go to a white school
-soldiers had to come to the school
- the kids faced hostility -
first lunch counter sit in
-four african american kids sat down in woolworths drugstore
- they were not served
-captured nation wide attention for the civil rights movement -
Freedom rides
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) -they were taught civil disobedience which was to break laws on purpose that they thought was unjust
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March on Washington
-250,000 marched to washington
- speeches were said and people sang
