Civil Rights Unit
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- Nonviolent Organizations
- NAACP, SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference by MLK), CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), SNCC
- Andrew Goodman, James Cheney, Michael Schwerner
- Murdered in Philly by policemen
- Jim Crow Laws
- A form a dejure segregation in the southern states
- NAACP
- Nat'l Assoc. for Advancement of Colored People-- Lawyers worked in courts to challenge segregation laws and tried to provide equal education without segregation...chose a school in Kansas to show that integration can happen anywhere
- Civil Rights Act
- 1)Standardized VOTER registration 2)NO discrimination in public areas 3) NO federal $ would be given to segregationist organizations 4) NO discrimination based on sex, religion, race, etc
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- President Johnson sends bill to protect the right to vote and it eliminates the barriers for blacks to vote. As a reu
- Edmund Pettus Bridge
- The turning point of the Selma March. MLK leads black protestors to the bridge and the Whites ATTACK them for no reason. Then MLK leads the protestors to the same bridge again, this time under the protection of a federalized Alabama Nat'l Guard, and they meet the whites, and the blacks sing the song
- Plessy vs Ferguson
- Plessy went to court to challenge the 13th and 14th amendments because he felt that trains should NOT be segregated. He lost this case and the supreme court said that as long as facilities are equal then there can be segregation...
- 13th amendment
- Said that the blacks were free from slavery
- 15th amendment
- gave blacks the right to vote
- 14th amendment
- said that whites and blacks are equal because they are both citizens
- Brown vs Board of Educ.
- Brown wins this case and is integrated into an all-white school. The court rules that
- Emmett Till
- 14 yrs old, Chicago black boy, murdered after said
- MFDP
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party- Fannue Lou Hammer= delegate who wanted more than 2 seats at large from the government
- Violent Organizations
- Nation of Islam (Malcolm X), Black Power (SNCC under Stokely Carmichael), and Black Panthers (Huey Newton and Bobby Seale)
- James Baldwin
- Dejure segregation vs Defacto segregation
- Freedom Summer 1964
- Was created by SNCC- Medgar Evers influenced a voter registration drive in MIssissippi.
- Describe the blacks role in WWII
- men fought in segregation from whites, women took over jobs in factories for men
- Southern Manifesto
- Created by Strom Thurmond, said that each individual state should have their own decision about segregation of schools.
- EEOC
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was a watchdog for job discrimination