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The U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, rules that segregation by law is legal and advances the notion of “separate but equal.” This kind of segregation is known as de jure segregation. African Americans were still not allowed to drink from the same water fountains, jobs blatantly stating they will not hire African Americans, so in reality this notion of being separate but equal was completely false.
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The purpose of CORE was to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or ethnic background.
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The integration of baseball really started with Jackie Robinson
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The States' Rights Democratic Party (usually called the Dixiecrats) was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States, active primarily in the South. It arose due to a Southern regional split in opposition to the Democratic Party. The Dixiecrats were determined to protect Southern states' rights to maintain racial segregation.
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On February 2, 1948, President Truman took great political risk by presenting a daring civil rights speech to a joint session of Congress. Instead, Truman turned to his executive powers and issued orders prohibiting discrimination in federal employment and to end segregation in the military.
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President Truman decides to desegregate the military and hopes this will lead to a more equal America.
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This was an important case in which the notion of ¨separate but equal¨ was successfully challenged. An African American (Sweatt) was being refused admission into the school of law at the University of Texas.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education marked a turning point in the history of race relations in the United States. On May 17, 1954, the Court stripped away constitutional sanctions for segregation by race, and made equal opportunity in education the law of the land.
