Start Quick Notes for the Civil Rights movement

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Civil Rights
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• Civil Rights rights guaranteed to all Americans
  by the constitution
• Civil Rights movement struggle to achieve equal
  rights in the 1950s through 1970s by changing
  laws

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• Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896 Supreme Court ruled
  that separate but equal was ok, segregation is
  ok

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• NAACP National Association for the Advancement
  of Colored People founded in 1909 by W.E.B. DuBois

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Linda Brown goes to school
White School
Colored School
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• Brown vs. Board of Education
• In 1952 Oliver Brown sued the school so his
  daughter could go to a closer school

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• Brown vs. Board of Education
• In 1952 Oliver Brown sued the school so his
  daughter could go to a closer school
• Went to Supreme Court
• In 1954 Supreme Court ruled that separate but
  equal was not ok in the schools

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Rosa Parks goes home
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• 1955 Montgomery, AL
• Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her seat to
  a white passenger

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• 1955 Montgomery, AL
• Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her seat to
  a white passenger
• African Americans boycotted Montgomery buses,
  very effective
• Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested for blocking a
  bus

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4 students go to have lunch
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• 1960 Greensboro, NC
• Sit-in at Woolworths
• 4 African American students were ignored sitting
  at the counter
• Came every day from open to close to protest

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Marching in Birmingham
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• 1963 Birmingham, AL
• led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was put in
  jail
• protests in stores, restaurants, and workplaces

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• 1963 Birmingham, AL
• led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was put in
  jail
• protests in stores, restaurants, and workplaces
• police chief Bull Conner ordered fire hoses and
  police dogs to stop protest, the attacks were
  televised

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Marching in Washington D.C.
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• 1963 Washington D.C.
• 200,000 people march to Washington
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gives I have a
  Dream speech