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OLD LAWS IGNORED -14th Amendment -15 th Amendment -Constitution was ignored by legal system and citizens

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OLD LAWS IGNORED

-14th Amendment

-15th Amendment

-Constitution was ignored by legal system and citizens

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NEW POLICIES ENFORCED

-racial etiquette

-Jim Crow laws

-Segregation

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Separate but Equal doctrine

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TIMES START TO CHANGE

-WW II exposed racism

-Truman’s civil rights agenda

-Jackie Robinson

-Warren Court

Brown v. Board

Ends Segregation

1954

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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