Racial Equality
- Created by: abloba
- Created on: 29-04-13 09:25
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- Racial Equality
- Jim Crow Laws
- Passed in 1890's - Separate but equal
- Segregation
- Black not as educated lived in worse places earned less wage couldn't vote
- Ku Klax Klan
- WASP's dressed in white burnt crosses murdered, ***** and lynched black people
- Buses
- Blacks had to give up their seat for whites or sit at back of bus
- Rosa parks refused was arrested & in jail in 1955 MLK organised Montgomery Bus Boycott in protest
- 75% of black people rode buses so bus companies forced to end segregation on buses in 1956
- Martin Luther King
- Believed in peaceful protests - "Passive Disobedience" & won Nobel peace prize 1964
- Organised 'sit-ins' but arrested 3 times in 1960/61
- "I have a dream.." 250,000 people turned up to listen at Lincoln Memorial
- Assassinated on 4th April 1968 Memphis
- Malcolm X
- Member of Nation of Islam wanted separate black states
- Was anti-white in 1963 forced to leave NOI and formed OAAU
- Influenced Stokely Carmichael he believed in Black Power
- Assassinated Feb 1965
- Jim Crow Laws
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