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3/7/2016
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Jim Crow
Laws restricting Southern blacks rights after
reconstruction
Public segregation
Poll taxes, literacy requirements limited voting rights
Brown v. Board
Earl Warren liberal Republican
appointed as Chief Justice of
Supreme Court by Eisenhower
(1953)
NAACP funded legal challenges to
segregation laws, led by lawyer
Thurgood Marshall
Brown v. Board
SCOTUS unanimously overturned
Plessy v. Ferguson segregation is
inherently unequal (1954)
Southern intransigence
Massive resistance: Senator Byrds (VA)
plan closed schools instead of letting them
integrate
Little Rock Nine: Orval Faubus, governor of
Arkansas, stopped integration of Little Rock
Central High School integration protected
by federal troops sent by Eisenhower
Video
Sit-Ins
1960, spontaneous civil disobedience
students in Greensboro, North Carolina
asked to be served at Woolworths whitesonly lunch counter
Hundreds participate in sit-ins across the
country
Woolworths desegregates lunch counters
Video: The Butler
March on Washington
1961 CORE organizes freedom rides
whites and blacks riding buses together across
South hundreds arrested and/or beaten
1963, King jailed while leading campaign for
desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama
1963, 200,000 March on Washington
Mexican-Americans
League of United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC) and GI Forum form to fight for
civil rights for hispanics
Hernandez v. Texas (1954) SCOTUS
rules Mexicans and other racial groups are
protected classes under the 14th
amendment