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Civil Rights Cases and Events
Case studies and events integral to ending segregation and improving civil rights in the US.
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Literature
9th Grade
01/29/2012

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Harper Lee
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Author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Ended segregation in schools; Linda Brown has to walk to get the bus to school, even though there is a school a few blocks away
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Jim Crow Laws
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Created "separate but equal" rules for African Americans; Created and allowed segregation among blacks and whites
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Scottsboro Trial
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Nine black men are accused of raping two white women; The event in which Harper Lee based her book on
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Rosa Parks
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This person is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus; Seamstress during civil rights movement
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Autherine Lucy
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Suspended from the University of Alabama in 1956
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Martin Luther King Jr
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Leader for a non-violent end to segregation
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Little Rock Arkansas Violence 1957
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The National Gaurd was called to prevent African American students from going to the public high school
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University of Alabama Violence 1956
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The police arrived too late for this violence in Alabama against a non-violent group
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Freedom Rides
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Buses began in Washington DC and led to a non-violent campaign
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Civil Rights Act of 1964/1968
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Abolishes Jim Crow Laws; Prohibits discrimination in schools, housing, hiring for jobs, ect
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KKK
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Hate group that uses violence to enforce segregation
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Declares the end of slavery; Written by Abraham Lincoln
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NAACP
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Group who works for the advancement of African American rights
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Malcolm X
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Violent leader who fought for African American rights
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Voting Rights Act 1965
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Got rid of literacy tests and poll taxes
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Million Man March
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Gathering in Washington DC to show the effect of votijng
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