Race Relations in the USA (1955-1968)
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- Race Relations in the USA (1955-1968)
- Civil Rights Movement (1961-1968)
- Freedom Rides
- 4th-24th May 1961
- 13 Riders (7 Black, 6 White)
- Interstate Buses Desegregated
- Freedom Marches
- Due to High numbers of the Unemployed
- Washington March 1963
- Martin Luther King 'I have a Dream' 11:30, 18th August 1963
- 200,000 People
- In front of Lincoln Memorial
- Both Black and White people from all states
- Mexico Olympics (1968)
- Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Peter Norman
- Untitled
- No Political opinions at Olympics therefore Banned
- Black Power Movement
- SNCC
- Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Commitee (pre 1969)
- Student National Co-ordinating Commitee
- Stokely Carmichael
- BPP
- Black Panther Party
- Encouraged Pride in Culture
- Malcom X
- SNCC
- Freedom Rides
- Racism in the 1950s
- Ku Klux Klan
- Now defined as a Terrorist Group
- Most Members were from the Southern States
- Jim Crow Laws (Southern States only)
- Affected Schools, Marriages, Restaurants and public facilities
- Living Standards for African Americans
- High rate of Unemployed
- 1916-1960: 6 million people moved North
- NAACP Test Cases
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Rosa Parks
- 1st December 1955: refused to move
- 5th December 1955: convicted and fined
- January 1956-January 1957
- 17,000 Black Americans took part
- December 1956: Bus segregation made illegal
- Rosa Parks
- Brown vs Topeka
- 17th May 1954
- Linda Brown had to walk 1 mile to school
- Segregation in Public Schools therefore Prohibited
- Little Rock High School
- September 1957
- Little Rock 9
- Orval Faubus (Governor of Arkansas)
- School reopened as a Desegregated School in 1960
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Ku Klux Klan
- Martin Luther King
- Pacifist
- Key Role in NAACP
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Sent to Jail 13th April 1963
- I have a Dream
- Rode first desegregated Montgomery Bus
- Freedom Rides
- Planned the Children's Crusade
- 10th December 1964: Nobel Peace Prize
- Charismatic
- Assassinated 1968
- Civil Rights Movement (1961-1968)
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