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-Civil Rights
A group of student
-!st action was a sit in at a segregated coffee shop
black social workers would
civil rights protects peoples rights -
Thurgood Marshall, Argued for Brown in the case NAACP lawyer
brown wins the case
public school became desegregated
argued before the warren court
Linda brown wanted to go to a white school that close to her house -
-Baseball was divided by the color line so he couldn't be on the team
-In 1945 Jackie crossed the color line because the general manager for the dodgers hired him.[Branch Rickey]. -
Harry S Truman
-Abolished racial discrimination in the US Air Force
-“It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.” Truman, 1948 -
Martin luther king tells the SCLC to be a nonviolent group when he was in jail.
- “justice too long delayed is justice denied.” Martin Luther king Jr "letter from a Birmingham jail" April 16 2963 -
Jim Crow Laws & Sit-In
Jim crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation .
Sit ins was where the african americans went to a public place and sat down to protest racial discrimination. It was four students from north Carolina agricultural and tech college that sat at a lunch counter. -
a white mob beat the freedom riders and through a firebomb through the window and beat the passengers as they ran out .
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when there was still segregation in schools one school, central high school had 9 black students integrated into their school and this was at little rock so they would be known as the little rock nine.
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-The march on Washington was to get rights for african american
-The NAACP was created -
-Rosa parks sat at the front of the bus which was illegal at the time and she was arrested for it
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-Plessy v. Ferguson
-And this was an act outlawing discrimination of anything
