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| What is the background of Brown v. Board of Education |
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| Supreme Court case in which justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional |
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| How did Brown v. Board of Education address the denial of civil rights to African Americans |
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1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that racially segregated public facilities were legal, so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
The ruling constitutionally sanctioned laws barring African Americans from sharing the same buses, schools and other public facilities as whites—known as “Jim Crow” laws—and established the “separate but equal” doctrine that would stand for the next six decades. |
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| How could one say that FDR or President Obama started the civil rights movement. |
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FDR: Appointed liberal justices to the Supreme Court who ruled on civil rights cases in favor of African Americans and minorities:
No segregation of schools
Voting- no poll tax, literacy
all can use busses, restaurants, hotels
Obama: Selects liberals to Supreme Court
Marriage equality |
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| Using one law how did Congress start the Civil Rights movement- EXPLAIN |
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segregation of schools
poll taxes
gays can't marry
women equal in athletics
literacy test to vote |
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| Using one law how did the Supreme Court start the Civil rights movement; EXPLAIN |
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segregation of schools
poll taxes
gays can't marry
women equal in athletics
literacy test to vote |
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Civil Rights
equal opportunity in employment, housing,
and education, as well as the right to vote,
the right of equal access to public facilities,
and the right to be free of racial discrimination. |
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