The role of state governments.

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The US federal system and states' rights.

In 1865, the federal government had defeated what they saw as a rebellion by the South and needed to get the confederate states back in the Union. The South subsequently passed black codes to controlling intimidate freed African Americans.

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The Southern states and Reconstruction

Saw African Americans in the new Constitutional Assemblies, which drew up constitutions and the first legislatures of the former confederate states.

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Reaction after 1877 and the Jim Crow laws.

The all-white legislatures and governments passed Jim Crow laws: separate hospitals, prisons, schools, churches and public restrooms. Codes of behaviour regulating social and sexual relations between different races. Regulations on voting.

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Little Rock

State government resisted the 1954 ruling of brown. Board of Education. Texas police prevented black students from entering a white school. Eisenhower imposed integration by the use of federal armed forces.

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James Meredith

Clash between the state of Mississippi and federal government of Kennedy, when federal officers enforced the African American student James Meredith's entry into a forcibly desegregated Mississippi University.

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Alabama

Police chief Eugene 'Bull' Connor used fire houses and attack dogs against civil rights protestors in Birmingham Alabama 1963.

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The state resistance to segregation prompted...

Increased media coverage, which turned public and world opinion against segregation. Also promoted federal intervention

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