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congress of racial equaity founded
-cival rights: the rights of a person and what they stand for -
Jackie Robinson Hired to the Brooklyn Dodgers
-Color Line: the line between Blacks and Whites -
Executive Order 9981
-segargation: people are separated due to something different about them -
Brown v. Board
-Thurgood Marshall: First African american to be a judge on the supreme court- -
Montgomery bus boycott
-Boycott: to not use a certain product due to inequality
-Rosa Parks: a African american that did not move seats on the bus and started a movement -
Integration of Central High School
- little rock nine: was nine African american kids that went to a all white school
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First lunch counter sit-ins
-Sit-ins: Sitting in a public facility as a means of peaceful protesting
-Jim Crow laws: laws that make racial separation ok in the south
-African American college kids who went into Woolsworth everyday
-These students were often attacked by white coustomers -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
-Nation of islam:
-Malcom X -
Freedom Rides
-Civil Disobedience: to protest a law nonviolently because it is not fair
-SNCC: a group of collage protesters -
Birmingham Campaign: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
-SCLC:Southern Christian Leadership Conference -
March on Washington
-NAACP: an organization for the advancement of colored people -
Cival Rights act of 1964
-Plessy v. Ferguson: 1896 case that determined separate but equal facilities
-originally Kennedys idea but Johnson got it passed
-Civil rights act banned discrimination -
voting rights act of 1965
-Disfrancise: -
Watts Riot
-Kerner Commission:
-ghettos: -
Black Panther Party Founded
-Black Power: -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
-Discrimination: -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
desegregation: -
Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakke
-Affirmative Action:
