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16 Cards in this Set
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Brown v. Board of Education
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-Challenges school segregation
-Court strikes down segregation as unconstitutional -Many southerners still resist... congress and Eisenhower do nothing! |
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Little Rock Nine
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-Governor orders National Guard to turn away students integrating Central High
-Eisenhower offers National protection -Shows the country segregation is still there |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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For 381 days blacks refuse to ride Montgomery buses
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Rosa Parks
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On Dec. 1, 1955, a seamstress and NAACP officer, took a seat in the front row of the colored section of a Montgomery bus. As the bus filled up, the driver ordered her and 3 other blacks to empty the row they were in so that a white man could sit down without having to sit next to any blacks. "It was time for someone to stand up, or in my case, sit down... I refused to move!"
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Pastor that was chosen to lead Civil Rights Group.
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Freedom Riders
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-Challenge segregated buses
-Police refuse to protect... but this brings about negative press -Integration begins to happen at places like Ole Miss (James Meredith), etc. |
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March on Washington
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-August 28, 1963
-250,000 people including 75,000 whites hear MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech |
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Freedom Summer
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-1964
-Hope to inspire a voting rights act -90% of blacks unable to vote -1,000 volunteers (mostly white, 1/3 female) sign up -In one summer 4 die, 4 critically wounded, 80 beaten |
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Selma to Montgomery march
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Marches that Started in Selma and went to Montgomeray... 1st march people were badly beaten 2nd march everyone was fine
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1965 Voting Rights act
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-In 4 years voting rates go from 10-60%
-But this is only in the south... anger over the inequalities in the north will ignite more violence |
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Malcolm X
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-born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska... was seen as alternative to MLK
-"Ballots or Bullets" |
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Nation of Islam
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-Black Muslims
-Malcolm X is gunned down and shot... dead at 39 |
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Black Panthers
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Civil Rights group formed to fight brutality in ghettos
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MLK Assassination
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April 4, 1968 - James Earl Ray shoots King through the neck in Memphis. Violence erupts across the country
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Braceros
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"hired hands" allowed into US to harvest crops
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Operation Wetback
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Federal program designed to find illegals and return them to Mexico... more than 2 million are deported
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