Civil Rights early 1950's
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- Created on: 16-03-20 08:36
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- Civil rights, Early 1950s
- - segregation and discrimination in the Southern States
- - Racist Jim Crow laws were used to segregate black and white Americans
- - the law stated it was legal to segregate as long as services were 'separate but equal'
- - segregated public facilities
- - in reality, services for black Americans was often inferior
- - Racist Jim Crow laws were used to segregate black and white Americans
- NAACP
- - National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
- - was set up in 1909
- - they fought for civil rights using the legal system and the courts
- - they defended black people who had been wrongfully convicted of crimes
- - focused on overturning, 'separate but equal'
- - they defended black people who had been wrongfully convicted of crimes
- - they fought for civil rights using the legal system and the courts
- - was set up in 1909
- - National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
- CORE
- - Congress Of Racial Equality
- - set up in 1942
- - had smaller membership than NAACP
- - members used non-violent direct action: training local activists
- - operated in mostly Northern states
- - members used non-violent direct action: training local activists
- - had smaller membership than NAACP
- - set up in 1942
- - Congress Of Racial Equality
- - segregation and discrimination in the Southern States
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