Civil Rights

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  1. 4. White people would attack black people, white racism was the main cause of the riots. Often caused by frustration of hopes and a feeling of powerlessness on the part of many black people, while white people were prejudiced.
  2. 7. During the reconstruction era, this group promoted white supremacy, was born in 1865 in Pulaski, Teneseee, in which torchured and lynched black citazens. Families were attacked and forced off their land.
  3. 8. American civil rights activist, who founded the Congress of Racial Equality and helped shape the civil rights movement through his nonviolent activism.
  4. 10. Laws passed to prevent black people from white facilities, legalized racial discrimnation and was named after a black minstrel show character. Marginalized black people and denied them the right to vote, hold jobs, and get education.
  5. 11. Won the right to send his child to a white school, involved in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case. Took a stand against racial discrimnation and joined with other parents to push for equal education.
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  1. 1. Outlawed racial discrimination in voting, Most black men in the United States did not gain the right to vote until after the American Civil War. This allowed everyone of any race to vote.
  2. 2. Led to black americans looking into their history, intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship.
  3. 3. High school attendees who challenged racial discrimnation in public schools, Nine black students, attended school in
  4. 5. ruled that schools could not segregate black children and white children. All children deserved the same opportunity for a quality education. In the Deep South, people were angry about this. They wanted to keep the children separate
  5. 6. The National Association was set up in 1909. They funded lawyers for black people who were treated very badly by the courts.
  6. 9. Tried to keep black people working as servers, restrictive laws that made to limit the freedom of black people after slavery was abloshied during the civil. This allowed cheap labor opportunities.