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Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement
1945-1975
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
Non-Violent
Held protest against segregation in Northern Cities.
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Tuskegee Airmen
WWII Ignited A Movement
"We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
During WWII, the African American soldiers experienced freedom and equality in European theatre.
But when they returned home, America was still plagued by segregation and discrimination.
SEGREGATION
A Way Of Life
Thurgood Marshall
After tasting the sweetness of freedom and equality, they found it difficult to return to the old ways of life.
Plessy v Ferguson
African Americans ....
* lower life expectancy
* more illiterate
* higher rates of poverty
* lower home ownership rates
De Facto Segregation
* North
* not illegal
De Jure Segregation
* South
* Jim Crow Laws
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