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Black Civil Rights in the 1950s
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Mind map on the major advances of black Civil Rights in the USA in the 1950s.
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montgomery
bus boycott
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little rock
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race
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u2: us race relations 1945-68
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Black Civil Rights in the 1950s
Background
Plessy vs. Ferguson
1896
Separate but equal
Jim Crow Laws
De facto in North, de jure in South
'Jim Crow' cartoon character
Schools, marriage, transport and public places
Ku Klux Klan
Formed in 1886
NAACP
Formed in 1909
Brown v Topeka 1954
Effects
Southern Manifesto
70% border state schools desegregated
Emmett Till 1955
Plessy vs. Ferguson overturned
Causes
Black schools were relatively ill-equipped
Integration was the only option
Events
NAACP took Topeka Board of Education to Supreme Court
Earl Warren ruled in favour of Linda Brown
Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955
1 year from December 1955
Causes
Rosa Parks refused to stand for a white person
She was arrested
Montgomery Improvement Association
500 people voted to boycott buses
Events
90% of black people took part
Lasted over a year
2/3 black people traveled by car pool
Effects
Bus company lost 65% income
December 1956 Montgomery Bus Laws declared illegal
Violence and intimidation
Churches and attacked
MLK arrested twice
Carpools banned
Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence
Leader of MIA
Formed SCLC
Little Rock 1957
Causes
The Brown vs. Topeka ruling was ignored by many states
Supreme Court order Governor Faubus to let 9 black students attend a school
Events
State troopers sent to block the students
Claiming it was for their safety
Eisenhower sent 1100 federal troops to intervene
1000-strong white mob blocked them too
Effects
Other blacks felt it was antagonising whites
Faubus closed Little Rock in 1958
Septemeber 1957
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