Progress in Education and Problems in Implementation in the Civil Rights Movement in the USA

Created by: Martha Boyd
Created on: 06-06-13 18:30

When did President Roosevelt die?

1945

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Who was Roosevelt succeeded byas President?

Truman

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In ... President ... set up a President's Committee on Civil Rights and produced a programme of reforms in ... including a bill to outlaw lynching and ban ... laws, but this was crushed by ....

In 1946 President Truman set up a President's Committee on Civil Rights and produced a programme of reforms in 1947 including a bill to outlaw lynching and ban Jim Crow laws, but this was crushed by Congress.

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In what year did the Supreme Court declare that black and white students couldn't be segregated in the same school and that education provied in segregated schools had to be equal in every respect?

1950

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... Brown was told by the Topeka Board of Education in ... that his ... year old daughter ... couldn't attend her nearest school because it was an all whites school.

Oliver Brown was told by the Topeka Board of Education in Kansas that his 7 year old daughter Linda couldn't attend her nearest school because it was an all whites school.

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... supported the Brown v Topeka case

the NAACP

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Brown was represented by who?

Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first black member of the Supreme Court.

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Did Brown win his case?

Yes

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In which year did the Supreme Court declare that all segregated schools were illegal?

1954

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In which year did the Supreme Court order all states with segregated schools to integrate black and white school children?

1955

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In ... the University of ... refused to accept Authorine Lucy as a student despite a government Court Order.

In 1956 the University of Alabama refused to accept Authorine Lucy as a student despite a government Court Order

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Who was Roosevelt succeeded byas President?

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Truman

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In ... President ... set up a President's Committee on Civil Rights and produced a programme of reforms in ... including a bill to outlaw lynching and ban ... laws, but this was crushed by ....

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In what year did the Supreme Court declare that black and white students couldn't be segregated in the same school and that education provied in segregated schools had to be equal in every respect?

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... Brown was told by the Topeka Board of Education in ... that his ... year old daughter ... couldn't attend her nearest school because it was an all whites school.

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