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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Founded
Civil Rights- Right to freedom and Social Equality
This was an organization set on Non-violoently making a change in segregations
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Dodgers Hire Jackie Robinson
-Color line: separation between whites and blacks
-Jackie Robinson and the dodgers break the color line
- first black major league baseball player -
Executive order 9981
-Segregation: grouping people by race
-Executive order 9981 made No more segregation between black people and white people in the military
-President truman signed this executive order
-This is a step towards equality -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam: African Americans Advocate the teaching of islam, Malcolm X started losing hope into it
Malcolm Told other Africans not to trust white people and they should be proud of their heritage
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Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
Thurgood Marshall- Showed that segregation harms african american children
This event made a law that segregation was not allowed in schools
Brown carried this case for a year and a half -
Start montgomery Bus Boycott
This Boycott was all started becasue Rosa Parks didnt want to go to the back of the bus just for the white people to have seats closer to the front, Boycotting the buses was their was of stating that they were not going to take this racism.
That was not her first going into Black, she entered the front entrance and payed and they told her she needed to enter through the back. -
Birmingham Campaign: Letter From a Birmingham Jail
SCLC: Organization started by MLK to achieve political goals without using violence
This organization involved MLK himself and many other Civil Rights leaders And ministers.
This organization is meant to "redeem the soul of america" -
Integration of Central Highschool
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
This Central highschool was denying the changes made to allow african students to enter the school and were doing anything and everything to stop these nine african students from entering the building. The president eventually gave the nine students military body guards and the students were able to attend central High. -
First lunch counter sit-in
Jim Crow Laws- state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States
This event mainly involved four African American students who were making a statement by sitting in a whites only restaurant.
Four African students were denied food at a Restaurant because the color of their skin and so they stayed until the place closed and just sat to let people know that they should be treated equal -
Freedom Rides
Civil Disobedience: the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. This event is a civil rights protest where blacks and whites rode buses together to check that southern states were complying with e ruling against Racism on interstate transport This involved many African Americans and white people who were just making sure the new laws were being followed -
March On Washington
NAACP: a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, 250,000 people demonstrated in the nation's capital for "jobs and freedom" and the passage of civil rights. people marched in Washington. It was the largest political gathering ever held in the United States. The quarter of a million protesters included about 60,000 whites as well as union members, clergy, students, entertainers, and celebrities -
Civil Rights act of 1964
Plessy vs. Ferguson: upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
This Event involved, Kennedy, Johnson and legislative members
This Act banned any discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Disenfranchise: When you take away a persons Right to vote It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, President Lyndon Is the man who signed the law into play -
Watts Riot
an African-American motorist was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving. A minor roadside argument broke out, and then Turned into a fight. Kerner commission: commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide answers for the future Los Angeles police needed the support of About 4,000 members of the California Army National Guard to quell the riots, which resulted in 34 deaths -
Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board Of Education
Desegregation: The act of ending a Racial Segregation Social Standard
The supreme court help bussing programs that targetted to speed up the racial integration of public schools
This Was successful because more African american children were attending school
