Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Supreme Court and African American
Civil Rights
- Supreme Court
- Late 1800s
- 1873 - Salughter house Case
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- Undid work of congress. Stated that the rights of citizens should stay under state. This would allow segregation to maintain especially in the South for many more years
- 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson
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- Gave the principle of " separate but equal" would allow segregation but had to be of equal standard. Undid the work of congress with the Civil Rights Act 1876
- 1950s
- Brown v. Board 1954
- Browder V. Gayle
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- Segregation on buses unconstitutional
- Presidents
- Late 19th & 20th Century
- Took little action to change anything
- Grover Cleveland
- Stressed importance for equal rights for all
- Theodore
Roosevelt
- Met with Booker T. Washington
- More action
- Woodrow Wilson
- Dismissed African American advisors
- Refused to meet with civil rights leaders
- Herbert Hoover
- Attempted to appoint racist judge, stopped by Supreme Court
- 20th Century
- FDR
- New Deal 1933
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- Would economically Aid African Americans
- 1941 - Executive Order
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- Banned racial discrimination in federal jobs
- Truman
- Fully desegregated the army
- Kennedy
- Began to draft new Civil Rights Act
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- Killed before he could finish it
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Civil Rights Act 1863
- Voting Rights Act 1864
- Nixon
- Reagan
- Suggested slowing down/stopping a fully equal society
- Bush
- Conservatised Supreme Court
- Congress
- Late 1800s
- Emancipation Proclamation 1963
Anmerkungen:
- Without the formal freeing of the slaves no work could be done on civil rights for the newly freed slaves. Congress allowed the start of the civil rights
- 13th Amendment 1865
- 14th (1868) & 15th (1870) Amendements
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- Gave newly freed slaves de jure equality. Techniqually from this point congress had given now African Americans equality. But this was no de facto
- Civil Rights Act 1875
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- Reaction to formal segregation. Mainly in the South. Stated that public y areas should not be segregated.
- Civil Rights Act 1957 & 1960
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