AAAD 150 1nd Edition Lecture 16Outline of Last Lecture I. Didn’t have class Outline of Current Lecture II. Important People III. Brown vs. Board of EducationIV. High influence of sports Current LectureI. 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 discriminationTuskegee 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 personA. 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 - Executive Order 9981o Desegregated armed forces o Create a unified people o Break down discrimination II. Brown vs. Board of Education- Earl Warren issued courts opinion of case - Argued segregation in education was unequal- Desegregation in education in schoolso All deliberant speed - Court declared separate public schools to be unconstitutional - Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson- Major victory of Civil Rights Movement III. High influence of sports Jackie Robinsono First modern African American to sign with the major baseball leagues - Lived in LAo Best academic opportunities - Great athleteo #42o Behavior was the model for the Civil Rights Movement led by MLKo 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
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