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CIVIL RIGHTS - Coggle Diagram
CIVIL RIGHTS
Reconstruction Period
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The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were created
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14th- Citizen rights, equal protection, apportionment, civil war debt
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Jim Crow Laws
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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
In Louisiana in 1892, Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White's" car
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Plessy's court went to the US Supreme Court, but in 1896 they ruled against him.
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Education
Ruby Bridges
In 1959, Ruby Bridges attended a segregated New Orleans Kindergarten
In 1960, a federal court ordered Louisiana to desegregate
Ruby's parents were torn about whether to let her attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School
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Important Extras
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Banned segregation on the grounds of race, religion, or national origin in public.
Barred race, religious, national origin and gender discrimination by employers and labor unions.
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Emmett Till
Born 1941 in Chicago.
Traveled to Money, Mississippi with his great uncle to visit family in August 1955. Accused of whistling at and assaulting a white woman. She told her husband who then kidnapped Emmett Till with his half-brother. They beat him and shot him in the head. Till was missing for three days before his body was found in a river.
His murderers were put on trial September 19, 1955. Black people and women were not allowed to serve on a jury. Despite huge evidence of guilt, the jury acquitted them of all charged. The trial lasted 67 minutes.
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