NAACP

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NAACP CORE
By Liz Standard, Katie Doherty, Chad Leiba, and
Lizzie Roberts
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NAACP History

• The National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People was founded on February 12, 1909
  in order to promote reforms for equality
• The basis of the NAACP was formed by Mary White
  Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard

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Thurgood Marshall

• Chief Counsel for the NAACP
• Helped in disputing the legality of segregation

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Rosa Parks, an African American woman who was a
  member of the NAACP, was chosen by the
  organization to refuse to give up her seat to a
  white man
• After Rosa Parks was arrested and put in jail,
  the NAACP decided to launch a boycott in
  Montgomery on December 5, the day of her trial

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Brown vs. Board

• Linda Brown, a third grader in Topeka, Kansas,
  was forced to walk a mile to school although a
  white school was closer to her home
• The NAACP became involved in the case of
  desegregating schools

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Greensboro Sit-Ins

• In 1960, four African American students started a
  sit-in at a local restaurant in Greensboro, NC
• After this first sit-in, many more students, both
  black and white, followed the example of the four
  students in a long string of sit-ins
• Many stores in Atlanta became desegregated and
  Woolworths decided to open again

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Brown vs. Board of Education
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Greensboro Sit-Ins
Rosa Parks
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Ruby Bridges video clip
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Segregation Division

• After World War II many African Americans were
  dissatisfied with their inequality and
  second-class status.
• In the 1940s new efforts were made to end racial
  injustice.
• Jim Crow laws in the south made it harder for
  African Americans to gain equality, and even in
  the north they still faced discrimination.

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Civil Rights Movement Grows

• Congress of Racial Equality(CORE) was formed in
  1942 to end racial injustice.
• James Farmer and an interracial group of students
  in Chicago founded to organization.
• They were influenced by pacifist leaders such as
  Gandhi and Thoreau.
• The group organized protest in cities such as
  Chicago, Detroit, Denver, and other northern
  cities.

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The core of CORE

• Cores protests were mostly based on nonviolent
  direct action campaigns.
• They fought against Jim Crow laws, job
  discrimination, and for voting rights.
• Many of this included sit-ins, peaceful marches,
  and freedom rides.
• The sit-ins ended segregation in restaruants and
  lunch-counters.

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Violence Erupts

• In 1947 Jackie Robinson became the first African
  American to play major league baseball.
• He received death threats, but from his heart
  winning career he paved the way for the
  integration of many other sports.
• In the south, veterans who were trying to
  register to vote were faced with racial violence.
  
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Committee of Civil Rights

• Appointed by Truman
• Was created to investigate race relations.
• Suggested anti-lynching laws and federal
  protection of voting rights.
• Truman never got congress support but he managed
  to desegregate the military.

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Testing Congress

• 1947 CORE announced their plan to send eight
  white men and eight African American men to test
  Supreme Court ruling that segregation in
  interstate travel was unconstitutional.
• This plan was called The Journey of
  Reconciliation.
• NAACP was against this idea, it was to direct.

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CORE NAACP

• CORE and NAACP both worked to obtain civil rights
  in America
• They also established over 30 Freedom schools in
  Mississippi African American students had the
  opportunity to receive an education
• Curriculum now included black history

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