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Objective 7.7- The Fight for Civil Rights

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or when the power Hyundai  what number are the civil rights movement in the United States has a long 1965 slavery is officially abolished in 1866 Civil Rights Act outlawed Black Codes next African Americans full citizenship rights in 1870 the Fifteenth Amendment gives blacks full suffrage Jim Crow laws Southern blacks in 1896 Plessy versus Ferguson declared segregation legal home and abroad in a 1948 true and fully integrated the military the state in America with the burns if you don't think you and then separate I found out out funniest you got to keep the White and the black pepper Plessy versus Ferguson Southern States fiercely enforced segregation Jim Crow laws water fountains and restrooms black facilities are always inferior to White facilities and they were labeled with humiliating signs some forms of informal segregation existed in Northern cities stop black could find housing in all black neighborhoods only in face hatred on the job front even pro sports for segregated until 1948 when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers aggressive direct action was needed action against the Jim Crow South their legal strategy was to sue over the inequality in the educational system which leads to the court case Brown versus Board of Education 1954 a 1951 eight year old Linda Brown is denied admission to her local school the old white school that she wanted to attend was only four blocks away from her home but she is forced to walk 20 blocks a day go to her black school bed by attorney Thurgood Marshall the n-double-acp sues the school board they claim the brown citizenship rights given by the 14th Amendment violated by equal access to education simply because she was African-American the Supreme Court decides unanimous that is unconstitutional they ruled that the separate-but-equal clause stop and Plessy versus Ferguson diesel eagle and violates the 14th Amendment rights of citizens the Brown case forces everywhere to desegregate by law but the ruling doesn't lead to immediate Creation in the south southern states resist the new law and keep the racist separate as white Southerners fight the ruling the stage is set for conflict and this leads to the crisis in Little Rock 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval faubus turns 9 black students away from Central High School the Little Rock Nine were students that were admitted to the integrated Ojai escorted by the end to the school the 9th Elizabeth turn our set in federal troops to guard the students daily the troops would ensure that students could enter the school without being attacked by the end of the year Governor fob is closed because of the crisis surrounded by the integration of Central High School in Little Rock the Silver Rights Act of 1957 was passed this gave the attorney-general more power to enforce School desegregation segregation is also challenged in public transportation throughout the South this leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 Rosa Parks a seamstress and end up CP member is arrested in Montgomery Alabama when asked she refused to give up her seat to a white man and move to the rear of the bus for the rest of the African Americans were forced to sit the protest aggregation laws for bus African American Stage the bus boycott in the city of Montgomery African Americans in the city-state off bus and walk miles to work everyday the bus system empty and fees were collected and white business is the mayor of Montgomery refuse to back down and in protest ran empty buses for nearly a year after her threats and arrests the Montgomery Bus Boycott worked the buses were desegregated in the town of Montgomery and Supreme Court outlawed segregation on buses 1950 in addition to leading to the integration of buses everywhere across the country the Montgomery Bus Boycott also led to a new leader in the Civil Rights Movement Luther King jr. Martin Luther King jr. was a third-generation Baptist minister with degrees in sociology and philosophy during the boycott and led the community and its struggle his leadership fire to boycott to succeed but he accepted the leadership role of the Civil Rights Movement a nonviolent approach tell me the King Junior model the approach after Mahatma Gandhi in India who had peacefully protested British rule meet with physical Force instead you should overcome it and love whites living alongside using Soul Force the success in Montgomery in Little Rock led to the spread of the movement make it to civil rights I hope that things could actually change young people on white Americans join the movement new groups form and used King Sulphur strategy to protest so let's take a look at new groups that formed during the Civil Rights Movement leadership conference also known as the SCLC a name to use churches that's bases to organize protests another group was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee also notice Nick and was formed in 1960 was made up of college students black and white who plays peaceful protest sneak famously stage sit-in at segregated lunch counters or willing to be arrested in order to get their point across  now the time Stompa this nation to fulfill its promise the events in Birmingham and elsewhere have so increased the cries for equality that no what city or state or legislative body can fruit Lee choose to ignore them the fires of frustration and Discord of burning and every city North and South legal remedies are not at hand next week I shall ask the Congress of the United States to act to make a commitment it is not only made in this Century to the proposition that race has no place in American Life on Mars

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