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Progress in obtaining african american rights was dependant on the…

- - - - . As elderly justices died, Roosevelt was able to appoint more liberal ones. Between 1937 and 1941 seven of the nine were replaced and verdicts began to reflect the change.
  - - - Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas legal verdict in 1954. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a black girl, Linda Brown, should be allowed to attend her nearest school (an all-white one) and that to bar her from it was unconstitutional. Chief Justice Earl Warren accepted all the arguments of black lawyer Thurgood Marshall.
  - - - Du bois and Trotter
  - - - Blanche K Bruce - Sat a full six year term from 1875-1881, failed to make any change due to lack of support. Would be a substantial wait for another black leader
    - - 13, 14th and 15th ammendmant pass that in dejure , give african american citenzenship, equal protection and protection of the vote, however In defacto This does not happen and these laws are not upheld in this time, making it relatively unsignificant
- - - - 1936 Olympic Games, challenged the idea of racial superiority.
    - - National Negro confrence
  - - - Rosa Parks
      - Martin Luther King
    - - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE
  - - - Ida B wells
    - - Naacp founded
  - - - Malcom X
    - - Black panther movement
- - - - Freedman bureu helped recently released slaves gain a economic position. trained scientists, lawyers and Innadvertantly created future black leaders
        
        Only able to help a minority of AA with 65 percent still being unable to write, compared to 15% of white americans
  - - - Booker t washington
  - - - Marcus garvey
  - - - ly a minority of the USA's black population shared in the increasing American prosperity of the early 1960s. When black people from the south were pouring into northern and western cities, unskilled job numbers were declining. But owing to past educational discrimination these were often only ones for which they were qualified. In the 1950s, as automation took over many factories, over a million jobs (often those held by black people) had disappeared. Yet African Americans still moved north to escape the rigid segregation of the south. By 1970 half of the USA’s black population was living outside of the southern states, compared with barely a third in 1950.