Civil Rights Movement 1950-1975 NOTES
January 28, 2019
Intro
Jim Crow Laws
began after the Civil War as a means to disenfranchise African Americans from participation in Democracy. These were the laws that made it illegal among other things to marry outside one's own race and segregated restrooms, restaurants, hotels and other businesses.
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
A landmark court case that made it to the Supreme Court, resulting in "Separate but Equal." Legalized SEGREGATION
The Great Migration
African Americans left the southern states to work in factories in the north and seek more equal treatment.
Brown vs. Board of Education 1954
Made segregation ILLEGAL in public schools
Vocabulary List
disenfranchise : separate from the Democratic process.
Segregation
Curfews
lynched
People to Know
Ida Wells
W.E.B. DuBois
President Truman Desegregated the Military
Addressed the NAACP for first time
Thurgood Marshall
Attorney for Brown v. Board of Education and first African American Supreme Court Justice