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Civil Rights Movement- The Beginning

Civil Rights Movement- The Beginning . Civil Rights. Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896 Supreme court case that ruled “Separate but Equal” Segregation of African Americans was legal, as long as equal facilities were provided Jim Crow laws NAACP had challenged Jim Crow laws for a long time

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Civil Rights Movement- The Beginning

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  1. Civil Rights Movement- The Beginning

  2. Civil Rights • Plessy vs. Ferguson • 1896 • Supreme court case that ruled “Separate but Equal” • Segregation of African Americans was legal, as long as equal facilities were provided • Jim Crow laws • NAACP had challenged Jim Crow laws for a long time • Had gained many victories, but was not enough to stop segregation

  3. Civil Rights • After WWI, African Americans started gaining more political power • Great Migration had spread them all over the country • After WWII they had even more • Respected as soldiers • Benefited from New Deal Laws • Supported the Democratic Party

  4. Civil Rights • 1942, CORE was founded • Congress of Racial Equality • Organized Sit-ins to protest segregated areas • Successful, but change was not happening quick enough • NAACP continued to battle segregation • Thurgood Marshall focused on the Public School system

  5. Civil Rights • Brown vs. Board of Education • Many different schools came together to force the integration of schools • Linda Brown of Topeka, Kansas became the center piece in the lawsuit • 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Browns • Separate but Equal was no longer Constitutional • Mixed reactions

  6. Civil Rights • African Americans viewed this as a step forward • Pushed more for other areas of integration • Some white Southerners pushed for a “massive resistance” • Supreme Court ruled that schools could integrate “with all deliberate speed” • Very vague wording and open to interpretation

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