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After Reconstruction : (Civil Rights Movement (Rosa Parks: NAACP, Martin…
After Reconstruction :
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Lynchings, Chain Gangs, Peonage.
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The Military has to deal with racism first: WWI and WWII separate Black Units. Korean War gets rid of that by Truman.
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Thurgood Marshap: NAACP attorney, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. Supreme Court agrees that segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
Civil Rights Movement
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - elected president of Montgomery Improvement Association.
14 year old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie RIver for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
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Movement: stop riding segregated buses, buses go bankrupt. City submits.
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Little Rock, Ark. ; 9 Black students blocked Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops to intervene on behalf of the students
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Medgar Evers: June 12, 1963
James Meredith Uni. Mississippi. JFK sends 5,000 troops.
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16th Street Baptist Church. MLK arrested during anti-segregation protest in Ala. writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Kids join in. King calls for a march on Washington.
200,000-300,000 people join the March on Washington. MLK delivers "I Have a Dream"
"First of all, separate is never equal."
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That my little children will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.