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15th Ammendment
granted African-American men the right to vote -
Creation of the NAACP
It impacted African-Americans because it pushed them to fight for their freedom and rights. -
Little Rock 9
Helped push for is to fight the hate crimes, the president saw what was happening stepped in, and was the sword in the coffin for desegregated schools -
Synagogues closed in South Dallas
Pushed to get everyone who has the same religion to say who cares we all have the same religion why does our skin have to do with anything? All got together to sing happy songs and to be united as one. -
Reverend P L Young moves into Oak Cliff
This was a gross form of segregation, Gestapo tactics are what the white citizens of Oak Cliff were doing in the event the black citizens would move to oak cliff, and exposed the passive threats imposed on the black community in Dallas -
The first explosion
A car slipped up to the front of the house, an arm reached through a rolled-down window, and an expertly made bomb of dynamite in gelatin form, of the type, then commonly used in the oil fields– eight inches long, wrapped in tape o give its shell just the right thickness, wrapped in newspaper and then wrapped again tightly in a kraft paper bag–looped up lazily from the street, spinning slowly through the air and flopping down next to the house -
Book: The daylight taunt
“Carloads of young whites drove the street of the Exline park looking for black women waiting at bus stops or black men tending their lawn and experimented with various means to frighten them.” Young white drove around frightening blacks by throwing firecrackers. This fed into the fear the bombing had already caused. -
Dallas morning news
This was an abuse of power imposed by the Dallas government by making a self-serving article that also depicted desegregation as harmful to citizens. -
Brown vs Board of education
This impact was great because this would allow children of both races to be raised with each other in a close environment, and also showed the true colors of segregationists blocking off education from the black community -
Emmett Till’s death
this affected the lives of black people because they had seen the injustice and the brutality of what they had done to the 14-year-old boy and ignited the civil rights movement. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It impacted in a positive way because it created freedom riders and desegregated all buses. -
Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957
The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to vote. -
Dallas Black boycotts
Boycotts led by Eddie Bernice Johnson
Was successful because it convinced store owners to listen to decreasing sales -
The Greensboro Four and the Sit-In Movement
On February 1, 1960, a group of four African American students from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina (now North Carolina A&T State University), a historically Black college, began a sit-in movement in downtown Greensboro. The Greensboro Four, as they came to be called, however, remained seated until closing and returned the next day with about 20 other Black students. -
Dallas desegregates schools
This shows a huge change in the civil acts movement as years prior, there were massive movements against this, and in the most pro-segregated state, was this enforced -
The order 10925
used affirmative action for the first time by instructing federal contractors to take "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin,” Established the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. -
Cynthia Scott brutal murder
Cynthia Scott was a normal citizen walking down the street and was stopped by a police officer that tried to arrest her. Scott knew her rights and did not cooperate with the officer because she did not want to get in that cop car. When she walked away she was shot twice which ended up killing her. -
March on Washington
This impact was great due to it allowing many people to share a common belief and allowing those who were persecuted to speak out through the voice of Martin Luther King Jr. -
24th Amendment
prohibited the use of poll taxes which allowed more people to vote. -
The March on Selma to Montgomery
the capital which led to them getting the right to vote the first time that African men were allowed to vote was in 1870 after the U.S. ended the civil war.