Civil Rights :)
- Created by: Lmt_reeses
- Created on: 11-06-18 20:08
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- Sit-ins
- Many got beaten up but they didn't fight back because it was a peaceful protest method
- Sitting at a white-only restaurant and not leaving till getting served
- Many got arrested in the process
- Police officers didn't prevent them from being beaten up
- USA 1954
- Little Rock High School
- 1957
- brought international attention to the civil rights cause.
- Eisenhower had shown that he had little faith in measures to support the African American community
- Nine African American students were accepted into the school
- the nine African American students
- The nine students were smuggled out of the school for their own safety and sent home.
- Brown vs Topeka
- 17th May 1954
- A girl having to walk a dangerous route when there was a non-segregated school every close
- The case was taking to court with the help of the NAACP
- On 19th May 1954, the court declared that segregation was against the law and the constitution of the USA.
- NAACP= National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
- Plessey vs Ferguson 1896
- Landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issuing constitutionalit-y of racial segregation laws
- Public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were meant to be equal in quality
- a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
- This law allowed state sponsored segregation
- Voting rights
- Literacy test was used to prevent black americans from voting
- The white supremacy governments took away the opportunity to vote
- Segregation
- The black americans were seen as inferior to white americans
- Black Americans were separated from white Americans
- Prevented from using the same public facilities and schools
- James Meredith case
- He got turned down because of his skin colour
- He applied for the White-only University of Mississippi
- The NAACP took on his case and got him a place
- This led to public facilities were desegregated
- Freedom Riders
- The police didn't prevent any violence committed against them
- Fire bombs were thrown on the buses
- This challenged the bus company
- Men sat in the seats that were segregated and interstates where there was desegregation
- They were beaten up by white mobs
- Malcolm X
- Believed that you couldn't get anywhere with peaceful protests
- In his opinion violence was the answer to getting equal rights
- Opposite to Martin Luther King
- Little Rock High School
- Martin Luther Kings Leadership
- Travelled around America giving speeches about peaceful protests
- He had the idea of not rioting because it exemplifies the fact that Black Americans were seen as violent
- His methods were; sit-ins, Bus Boycotts and marches
- USA 1954
- Little Rock High School
- 1957
- brought international attention to the civil rights cause.
- Eisenhower had shown that he had little faith in measures to support the African American community
- Nine African American students were accepted into the school
- the nine African American students
- The nine students were smuggled out of the school for their own safety and sent home.
- Brown vs Topeka
- 17th May 1954
- A girl having to walk a dangerous route when there was a non-segregated school every close
- The case was taking to court with the help of the NAACP
- On 19th May 1954, the court declared that segregation was against the law and the constitution of the USA.
- NAACP= National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
- Plessey vs Ferguson 1896
- Landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issuing constitutionalit-y of racial segregation laws
- Public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were meant to be equal in quality
- a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
- This law allowed state sponsored segregation
- Voting rights
- Literacy test was used to prevent black americans from voting
- The white supremacy governments took away the opportunity to vote
- Segregation
- The black americans were seen as inferior to white americans
- Black Americans were separated from white Americans
- Prevented from using the same public facilities and schools
- James Meredith case
- He got turned down because of his skin colour
- He applied for the White-only University of Mississippi
- The NAACP took on his case and got him a place
- This led to public facilities were desegregated
- Freedom Riders
- The police didn't prevent any violence committed against them
- Fire bombs were thrown on the buses
- This challenged the bus company
- Men sat in the seats that were segregated and interstates where there was desegregation
- They were beaten up by white mobs
- Malcolm X
- Believed that you couldn't get anywhere with peaceful protests
- In his opinion violence was the answer to getting equal rights
- Opposite to Martin Luther King
- Little Rock High School
- The Black Panthers
- Didn't think that the non-violent protests were making enough noticeable progress
- They were violent in a public stance
- They were willing to use violence to get what they wanted.
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