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Dodger's HIRE Jackie Robinson
*Color line is a barrier that separates whites form none whites
* Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers-break the color line
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Executive Order 9981
*segregation- grouping people by race/belief
* President Truman sings this Executive Order, it effects those in the military
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Brown v. Bored of Education Ruling
*Thurgood Marshall- Lead attorney of NNACP"S
*A class-action lawsuit, or a persons who fight in court for the benefit of a larger group.
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Integration of Central High School
- Little Rock Nine- Nine African Americans enrolled in a all white school. *Two Hundred whites went to the Central school- Only Nine Blacks got enrolled to the central school. *This meant a lot for the blacks because they new that not many blacks got picked to go to a all whites school.
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First Lunch Counter Sit-In
- Jim Crown Laws & Sit-In- Law to end racial segregation. *Blacks were getting the right to vote- Blacks we going to rester to vote and have rights as a human. *August- Congress passed the voting act- Meaning that blacks had the free to vote and have more rights as a human.
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(CORE) Founded
- Civil Rights- Equal rights to all people *Eventually abandoned the freedom riders after they were beaten *CORE made the freedom riders ti see if state were company to stop rasim
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Birmingham Campaign
*SCLC- Christian leadership group for African Americans civil rights
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March on Washington
*NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People .
*James Meredith- Started the March on Washington to help encourage African Americans to stand up for there rights
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
*Plessy v. Ferguson- Landmark constitutional law case
* This was a fight to end racism all over- Meaning that blacks would have equal rights as white people did.
*MLK did his I have a Dream speech- to help stand up for blacks rights and gain more freedom for the blacks. -
Freedom Riders
*Civil Disobedience & SNCC- Refusal to obey a rule or law in a way to change it
*Freedom Summer- Camping that helped blacks to vote and have more freedom to have equal rights as whites did.
* 320 blacks were registered to vote- meaning that the other 15,000 blacks still needed to vote and earn equal rights as a human. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Disenfranchise- Law disenfranchised some 3,000 voters on residence qualification
*African Americans were getting the right to vote and have equal rights
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Watts Riot
*Kerner Commission- 1965 race riot in Watts, a black ghetto in Los Angeles.
Caused bye- frustrations about poverty, and police mistreatment -
Black Panther Party Founded
*Black Power-Movement that supported rights for black people
*Black Power helped the black's get more freedom in voting and living there life as a free human with more rights.
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Advocates for black nationalism
- a doctrine, promoted by the Nation of Islam, calling for complete separation for white society.
- a doctrine that called complete separation from white society.
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Swann V. Charlotte
*Mecklenberg board of education- The 1971 Supreme Court ruling that busing was an acceptable way to achieve school integration
* Three years later, the supreme court took another look at school segrergation in Swann vs Charlotte -
Regents of the University of California V. black
- 1978 Supreme Court ruling that narrowly upheld affirmative action. *Race may be one factor
- School sole criterion for school admissions
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Montgomery Bus Boycott (star)
*Boycott & Rosa Parks- Rosa Parks 43 year old African American refused to give her seat up on the bus to a White American.
*All African Americans were boycotting the bus's and were walking or car pooling to places.
*Because of the Boycotting the bus's ran out of money and got shut down.
