How has the 14th amendment impacted American life since its adoption in 1866

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How has the 14th amendment impacted American life
since its adoption in 1866?

• See Legacy p. 297 discourse on the role of the
  amendments equal protection clause

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Civil rights, 1890-1910

• Debate framed by B.T. Washington,
• accomodation argument, 1896- Plessy vs.
  Ferguson
• W. E. B. Du Bois challenged
• Challenges its premise, pushes
• for more direct opportuity,
• talented 10th idea

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Whose ideas have a greater legacy Washington or
Du Bois?
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Civil Rights explodes, 1945-1960, why?
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Key Points, 1954-1964

• 1954 Brown v. Board of Ed (Kansas)
• 1955 Montgomery bus boycott MLK, Jr. Rosa
  Parks
• 1957 Little Rock showdown (Eisenhower
  intervenes)
• 1960 SNCC forms sit-ins, boycotts, voter reg.
  drives
• 1962 Meredith integrates Ole Miss
• 1963 Birmingham childrens brigade
• Aug., 1963 march on Washington
• 1964 Civil Rights Act,
• 1964 first riots in Los Angeles (Watts)

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SNCC button
SNCC Sit-in
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Pairs activity what did you learn from the
Michigan oral history?
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Black nationalism, 1964-1970

• Nation of Islam Malcolm X profess black
  separatism
• 1966 Black Panthers Stokely Charmichal, et. al.
  a quasi-political, social organization, Black
  Power movement
• Urban riots hit numerous northern, west coast
  cities in wake of continued poverty
• 1968 King assassination, election in backdrop of
  rioting