Create a caption which describes each picture. (Imagine these images were in a newspaper, what would it say underneath them?)

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Create a caption which describes each picture.
(Imagine these images were in a newspaper, what
would it say underneath them?)
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Seeds of the Civil Rights Revolution
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Background
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Civil Rights Act 1875

• Congress passed law saying all men are equal
  under the law
• Penalties for denying patronage (business) on
  basis of race
• Inns, theatres, restaurants
• 1883 Supreme Court rules act unconstitutional
• Applied only to government, not private citizens

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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Jim Crow Laws
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WWII paved the way for more civil rights movements
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NAACP

• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People (1909)
• Started to stop lynching and help blacks get
  voting rights
• By 1930s wanted full integration
• Led by Thurgood Marshall
• Young black lawyer
• Fought several major cases