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- long movement that began in Reconstruction
- 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson |
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- Fair Employment Practices Committee
- Roosevelt
- bans discrimination in defense industries given federal money.
- not much power |
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- organized black laborers to unions
- became civil rights leader
- March On Washington in late 40's
- protest discrimination in war defense industries
- bad pr for FDR
- passed FEPC
- after WW2 forces were desegregated |
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- half a million blacks go north and west looking for work.
- 1914 north is cut off from europe, looks for cheap work in south.
- after war, blacks avoid jim crow laws in south
- pushed into ghettos
- older black communities dislike new (jobs/cultural differences) |
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- challenged Jim Crow segregation
- pursued legal cases
- access to graduate school
- Brown vs. Board last piece to tear down
- grew 500% is WW2 |
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- Chief Justice Warren and liberal court strike down
- strikes down all equal but separate aspects
- everything was unequal in all aspects
- Jim Crow segregation is over
- black children faced worse schools
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- Central High
- Orvis refused to allow integration
- Eisenhower called 101 Airborn to integrate schools. |
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| Kennedy and freedom riders |
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- provided protection for freedom riders, but not total protection.
- rode buses from north to south to force desegregation
- tested fed gov's willingness to enforce laws
- were beaten
- JFK's brother sent US marshalls |
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- civil rights society apart of "great society"
Civil Rights Act 64
Voting Rights Act of 65
- civil rights leaders beaten in Selma
- prompted Voting Rights act
- reformed welfare |
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