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
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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.