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Civil Rights and social Protests - Coggle Diagram
Civil Rights and social Protests
USA
Civil rights
Jim Crow laws
Forced black people to live in separated areas and to use separate facilities.
Anyone who went against the Jim Crow laws risked losing their jobs, homes or even their lives
Blacks were prevented from voting
Northern states
Jim Crow laws and segregation did not exist
Discrimination against black Americans
Ways which proved effective in challenging discrimination (1950-60)
Legal action
The NAACP brought a court case against the Board of Education
Marshall Thurgood
Won the case against segregation
Set up integrated schools
Southem states claimed states´ rights
Such views were supported by the Ku Klux Klan
White group
Killed black people
Violent and intimidate
Central High School, Little Rock, 1957
Decided to allow 9 black students
They were turned away by the governor
Federal troops protect the students
Direct action
South Africa