HIST 2112 1950s Civil Rights Movement o Legacy of Civil War is alive and well o Most blacks are still not voting Being denied citizenship Being denied voting rights o Many blacks fought in WWII Tremendous economic growth o Rise of consumerism o Expecting economic growth to continue to increase o Except for blacks No increase in standard of living Legal Approach Attack individual laws NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Kansas 1954 o Attack segregation where it is weak o Law says separate but equal schools is okay o NAACP understands that the schools are unequal so it is not okay Inherently discriminatory o Changed and made all schools across the nation desegregate with all deliberate speed o A lot of schools ignored the Supreme Court o UGA almost shut the university down to prevent desegregation Created segregation academies o Schools that best fit your needs o Resulted in racially segregated o Also academies cost money and eliminated a lot of the poorer black population Emmett Till murder o Northerner does not understand southern rules o Said something sexual to a store clerk s wife o Kidnapped from his house Beaten Shot in the head o Weighted down in a river and found a few days later o Sent back to Chicago o His mother had a glass casket so everyone could see the cruelty o Killers are found not guilty o Then confessed to everything Cannot be tried again for the same crime MLK had his start in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 o SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Council Economic pressure Marches Civil disobedience SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Sit ins o Sit in restaurants that refuse them service and stay all day Freedom buses o Sat intermixed in states where it was legal but remained seated once they crossed borders where it was illegal o Klan intervened o Police let them have free rain for 15 minutes before they moved in and brought order o Victims were taken to hospitals Whites were treated Blacks were not
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