………………………….pg. 8- 10 Stokely Carmichael…………………pg. 11-14 Marcus Garvey………………………pg. 15-17 Frederick Douglass…………………..pg. 18-20 John Brown…………………………pg. 21- 23 Medgar Evers ………………………pg. 24- 25 Nat Turner…………………………..pg. 26- 27 Homer Plessy……………………..pg. 28-30 Malcolm X [pic] Malcolm X May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz,was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers
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To what extent did Reconstruction (1865-77) result in progress for African Americans by 1917? Reconstruction did result in some progress for African Americans, particularly in the short term, following the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments resulting in immediate progress for African Americans, but over the period of Reconstruction and after the reintegration of southern states to the union the amount of progress reduced therefore in the long term there was very little change. Very little long term
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involvement in achieving African American Civil Rights between 1865 and 1915 because by ruling the Second Civil Rights Act unconstitutional it enables similar cases in the future to be ruled out in the same which was the situation in 1896. Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896 was ruled constitutional, stating that African Americans were ‘separate but equal’, in other words, racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the constitution as ‘segregation’ in the eyes of the Court, ‘was not discrimination’
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• NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Plessy Vs. Ferguson-1896-separate but equal • De facto segregation-segregation by custom and tradition • Sweatt vs. Painter-schools had to admit black people • Sit-ins---would sit and refused to move in order to shame managers into integration • Brown vs. Board-Thurgood Marshall-Linda Brown-ended segregation in all public schools • Montgomery Bus Boycott-Rosa Parks-MLK was a leader • MLK-inspired by Gandhi • Southern Christian
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the Blacks were uneducated so this made the literacy tests very hard to complete. The Jim Crow laws were made to separate the whites and blacks. With all this happening it made Booker T Washington give up hope that things would get better. The Plessy vs Ferguson case was not fighting for equality, but only half that. Of you are separate then you are NOT equal. The only term that could be helpful to the Blacks is W. E. B. DuBois he established the NAACP, which helped colored people. But himself as a
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The Brown vs. Board case is a combination of several different cases from Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. Where several black children were seeking admission to public schools that were segregated based on race. Though many cases came before this one it got the most publicity. The case name, The Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, came from one of the 13 NAACP lawyers named Oliver Brown. His reason for naming it after himself was a legal strategy to have a man at the
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things First: The distinction between a human being and an animal Second: What differentiates one group of persons from another group of persons. "Axes of Distinction" Renaissance (16th-17th c.)- Christian vs. non-Christian Religious space/time Enlightenment (18th c.)- Civilized vs. Savage (secular time, progress) 19th Century- Multiple Races (secular space, autochthany) 20th Century- Multiple Cultures (secular space, autochthany) Becomes a time when the word race becomes
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Amendments of the Consitution freed African Americans from slavery, gave them the rights of any other U.S. citizen, and gave them the right to vote. However, the extent of these amendments were hotly debated, and a previous court ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson ruled that African Americans could have separate public facilities like bathrooms and schools as long as they were equal. This interpretation, now known as segregation, was unconstitutional, however, because the facilities were rarely if ever
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he Industrialization period was the late 1800s and early 1900s. With the new machines invented, food was safer but people were being put out of jobs by machines and inventions. Laissez faire was a law that allowed businesses to operate without the government stepping in, big business paid their employees low wages and made them work 12 hour days. Railroads allowed big companies to get their product all over the country. City life in the late 1800s and early 1900s was over crowded with no running
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upon when Jim Crow Laws were enacted and during the forming of the Klu Klux Klan. To begin with, Jim Crow Laws were laws that enforced segregation on African Americans and other people of color. Based on the “Separate but Equal” policy from Plessy vs. Ferguson, there were two different facilities, even water fountains, for each race: Colored and White. African Americans could not go into any white facility. There was no change in how they were treated between the Civil War and Reconstruction; they
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