AAAD 150 1nd Edition Lecture 16 Outline of Last Lecture I Didn t have class Outline of Current Lecture II Important People III Brown vs Board of Education IV High influence of sports Current Lecture I Important People Dory Miller Servant never fired a gun USS Virginia o Rose to the deck and shot down 5 enemy planes o Helped captain to safety Seen as a symbol hero Awarded US Navy Cross Began to break down racial discrimination Tuskegee Air Force Air fighters based in Tuskegee institute Trained well 3000 missions in the war o Won 300 medals Blacks were seen as people who could do equal abilities as any other person A Philip Randolph Planned to put pressure on Roosevelt to create equal employment in the defense industries because they were being hired based on race If Roosevelt didn t comply Randolph threatened with a 100 000 people march o Roosevelt didn t want this march with everything else going on at the time Led to the Executive Order 8802 Fair employment within the defense industries These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Harry Truman II III Executive Order 9981 o Desegregated armed forces o Create a unified people o Break down discrimination Brown vs Board of Education Earl Warren issued courts opinion of case Argued segregation in education was unequal Desegregation in education in schools o All deliberant speed Court declared separate public schools to be unconstitutional Overturned Plessy vs Ferguson Major victory of Civil Rights Movement High influence of sports Jackie Robinson o First modern African American to sign with the major baseball leagues Lived in LA o Best academic opportunities Great athlete o 42 o Behavior was the model for the Civil Rights Movement led by MLK o National hero because he wouldn t respond to hostility or hatred Brooklyn Dodgers Branch Rickey was the manager He came together with Jackie and they wanted to break down barriers in sports so it could gradually lead to the end of segregation Jackie played on the Dodgers
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