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N.A.A.C.P focuses on legal cases/court system (Thurgood Marshall) C.O.R.E (Congress of Racial Equality)-non- violence started 1942 Jackie Robinson 1947 Desegregation of armed forces 1948
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1955: 14 years old from Chicago Accused of whistling at a white store owner’s wife while visiting grandfather in Mississippi Taken from bed and beaten, eyes gouged out, and drown him by tying a cotton gin fan around his neck
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Refused to give up her seat for a white passenger and was arrested Led to a boycott of the buses for almost a year Boycott: do not use the goods or services
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26 yrs old during Montgomery Bus Boycott 1 st President of Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC) March on Washington August 1963 -200,000 people -I Have a Dream Speech
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9 high school students are stopped form attending a desegregated high school in Arkansas Governor calls out National Guard President Eisenhower calls out US Army Who has higher power?
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1954: Brown v. Board 1955: Emmitt Till 1955: Montgomery Bus Boycott 1957: S.C.L.C formed led by M.L.K 1957: Little Rock Nine
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2 Types: -DeJure Segregation: by law (Jim Crow Laws) -DeFacto Segregation: done by practice or custom-not by law
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Do you think you could practice non- violence? What if someone was using violence against you?
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: started in North Carolina and then spread -college students of different races Woolworth Sit-In Also participated in Freedom Rides, March on Washington, etc
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Dogs Fire Hoses Tear Gas Clubs
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Bus rides that took students into the South to help desegregate public facilities like train stations, etc. Many arrested or killed
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Sept. 15, 1963: Sunday morning bomb thrown into basement Baptist Church Tension over registering to vote Killed four girls Done by KKK Turning point-seen on color tv in North Not until 2000-two out of four men serve sentences
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13 th Amendment 1865: abolished slavery 14 th Amendment 1868: equal protection under the law 15 th Amendment 1870: can not discriminate against race (voting men) 19 th Amendment 1920 : women get the right to vote
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Literacy Test Make it difficult to register Poll Tax Grandfather Clause
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Voter Education Project (VEP) 1962-CORE, SNCC Helped encourage African Americans to register to vote Freedom Summer: college students mainly from Ohio go to Mississippi to help register voters and teach summer school - reading/math/history Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Mike Schwerner
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First on March 7, 1965 also known as “Bloody Sunday” Second on March 9 th The third started on March 23 made it 51 miles Fighting for voting rights
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University Georgia 1961: Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes University Mississippi 1962: James Meredith Riots erupted Later shot & lived helping blacks register to vote University Alabama 1963: Vivian Malone & James Hood Governor Wallace tries to stop
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Became a Black Muslim in prison Replaced last name with X defied the sign of slavery by taking your owner’s last name Believed non- violence useless
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Went on pilgrimage to Mecca Returned and realized Elijah teachings were wrong and switched to non-violence Shot 21 times Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, NY Killed Feb. 21, 1965 by three members of the Nation of Islam while giving a speech www.pbs.org Thomas Hagan Paroled 2010
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A movement that came from the SNCC when Stokely Carmichael separated from the group in late 1960s Believed nonviolence not working and became a militant group mainly against police brutality
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1968 Mexico City Olympics John Carlos and Tommie Smith do the Power to the People Salute Stripped of medals only recently returned
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Civil Rights Act 1964: -Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson -Made Jim Crow laws illegal -Can not discriminate in public places, desegregated schools, can not discriminate in jobs, etc. ***Turning Point in the Civil Rights Movement
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Voting Rights Act 1965: made poll tax and literacy tests illegal & stated can not discriminate against race when voting -Only federal employees can register people to vote not community members 24 th Amendment: made poll taxes illegal
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Should the government be able to tell you who you can be friends with? Should the government be able to tell you who you can marry?
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Mildred and Richard Loving went to D.C. to marry since it was illegal in Virginia Cops raided home and arrested them Overthrew Racial Integrity Act 1924 Made restricts on interracial marriage illegal How many of you or your friends can now exist?
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www.pbs.org www.pbs.org April 4, 1968 Killed by James Earl Ray on balcony hotel
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Civil Rights Act 1968: Banned discrimination in housing
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