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OLD LAWS IGNORED
-14th Amendment
-15th Amendment
-Constitution was ignored by legal system and citizens
NEW POLICIES ENFORCED
-racial etiquette
-Jim Crow laws
-Segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
1896
Separate but Equal doctrine
TIMES START TO CHANGE
-WW II exposed racism
-Truman’s civil rights agenda
-Jackie Robinson
-Warren Court
Brown v. Board
Ends Segregation
1954
RESISTANCE BEGINS
-Prior beginnings
-NAACP had been fighting foe equality since its founding in 1909
-Vernon Johns
-Rosa Parks
1955
Bus Segregation
Montgomery, Ala.
-Martin Luther King
Bus boycotts
RESISTANCE BEGINS
-Prior beginnings
-NAACP had been fighting foe equality since its founding in 1909
-Vernon Johns
-Rosa Parks
1955
Bus Segregation
Montgomery, Ala.
-Martin Luther King
Bus boycotts
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
-pastor at Dexter Ave Church at age 26
-belief in non-violent resistance
Gandhi
Henry David Thoreau
-movement is battle for public opinion
-became leader of the movement
-SCLC
-SNCC
CRISIS IN SCHOOLING
-Brown v. Board
-Resistance to integration
-Little Rock Central
Little Rock Nine
1957
Governor orders National Guard to stop black students
-Use of Federal troops by Eisenhower to integrate
CRISIS IN SCHOOLING
-Brown v. Board
-Resistance to integration
-Little Rock Central
Little Rock Nine
1957
Governor orders National Guard to stop black students
-Use of Federal troops by Eisenhower to integrate
CRISIS IN SCHOOLING
-Brown v. Board
-Resistance to integration
-Little Rock Central
Little Rock Nine
1957
Governor orders National Guard to stop black students
-Use of Federal troops by Eisenhower to integrate