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Thurgood Marshall was a attorney that argued that segregation harms african children.
-Ruling that segregation in schools is unconstitutional. -
Civil rights to every citizen in the united states.
-Founded by a group of students who protested nonviolently against segregation
-started in the north the moved to bigger cities and got to the south and many blacks got civil rights. -
Color line: a barrier created by custom, law, and economic differences that separated whites from nonwhites.
-When jackie took to the feild the first time he was made fun of for being black. -
segregation:the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
-Their is segregation
- President truman sings act 9981 and starts desegregation. -
SCLC: Southern christian leader ship conference
-Joined king in rebelling in segregation. -
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court.
-It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal. -
Black power: group of activists that were ok being violent when protesting
SNCC: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Blacks and the nation of islom were influenced by th leaders Malcolm X, Huey newton and bobby steal.
- Were ok with violence
-Wanted to make a change -
Jim Crow Laws & Sit-In
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Civil Disobedience & SNCC:the nonviolent refusal to obey a law that the protester considers to be unjust
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The little rock nine: where nine black students sent to go to a white school.
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NAACP:a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization.
-The march to Washington was a protest that blacks wanted civil rights. -
Boycott & Rosa Parks: Rosa refused to give up her set on the bus and that started the bigining of a massive protest.
-Peaple stopped riding the bus. -
disenfranchise:the right to vote.
-Peaple were wanting peaple from missisipe to vote. -
Nation of Islam, Malcom X: Macolm was aislomic person that tryed to spead his teachings.
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Affirmative action: action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education.
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discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
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Desegregation: ending the segragation of peaple by race
-school and the black students who are being bussed to the school
-bussing is a way for schools to desegregate. -
Kerner Commission & ghettos: the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders that concluded that white racism was the fundamental cause of the Watts riot
-Police were forced to stop the riot wich lasted six days
