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Civil Rights

Civil Rights. Segregation. Segregation. Forced in the South: Jim Crow Economic in the North: Ghetto After WW II attitudes toward civil rights began to change. Court Case. Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 Legalized separate but equal Never equal NAACP work to change: Thurgood Marshall

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Civil Rights

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  1. Civil Rights Segregation

  2. Segregation • Forced in the South: Jim Crow • Economic in the North: Ghetto • After WW II attitudes toward civil rights began to change

  3. Court Case • Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 Legalized separate but equal\ Never equal NAACP work to change: Thurgood Marshall • Brown v Board of Education 1954 Overturned the Plessy case Overturned segregation Southern resistance: KKK Ike Stayed neutral

  4. Little Rock • Forced integration • 1957 Gov Faubus refused to allow high school to integrate • Faubus used National Guard • Ike Nationalized Guard • States Rights

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