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-provided for the expansion of the Army Air Corp
-authorized the establishment of facilities to train African American pilots |
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Burke-Wadsworth Act of
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Created the first
peacetime draft in U.S.
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Committee for the Participation of
Negroes in the National Defense Program |
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| Never lost a bomber to enemy action |
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| removed number libmit on black nurses serving in the military |
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| black-oriented radio station in memphis |
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| DJ who utilize black stereotypes to get on the hair of WDIA and make political statements |
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Split-off of the Democratic party
Led by Thurmond
Opposed integration on blacks |
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Ended white primaries
1944 |
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Against segregation in public schools
Court ruling that separate is inherently unequal |
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Virginian minister
Claimed that blacks were destined to be servants |
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Montgomery Improvement Association
coordinated the bus boycott
leader: MLK |
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Southern Christian Leadership Council
Nonviolent protest |
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Nine black students who enroll at a white HS,
Federal paratroopers sent to protect them |
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| nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. |
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| ended overt, legally sanctioned segregation nationwide |
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| Congress of Racial Equality |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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| Ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional |
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| advocated group-centered leadership and participatory democracy of civil rights committees |
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| Prohibits discriminiation in voting |
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| Harpinger v. Board of elections |
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| Court finds that schools need to come forward with a plan to integrate schools, as freedom-of-choice was an insufficient method of integration |
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| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg |
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| Court finds busing students as an appropriate method of integration |
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Court limits ability to bus across district lines
Segregation is legal if it is not explicit policy |
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| petitions for the court to declare San Fran's "Bingham Ordinance", which outlawed Chinese from conducting business outside of Chinatown, unconstitutional |
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| Court denies an asian student the right to attend his neighborhood school, because of the "separate but equal" doctrine |
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| Lum argued that her rejection from the local white school was unconstitutional, court did not agree, because of the "separate but equal" doctrine |
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| Mendez v. Westminister School District of Orange Country |
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| Court case that challenged racial segregation in schools in Orange County. Court ruled that segregation of Mexican-American students into Mexican schools is unconstitutional. |
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| League of United Latin American Citizens |
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| Ruled in 1947 that segregation in schools is a clear violation of the 14th amendment |
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-repealed all CA school codes that mandated segregation
-signed by governor Earl Warren |
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| Controversial policy to proactively integrate higher education, and increase representation in employment |
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| 17yr old african american who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman because Martin "looked suspicious" |
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