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Criteria for success for civil rights

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Raise in morale in the black communities- pride and self help

Changes to the law

Changes to the position of black Americans
qxxxxxxCIVIL RIGHTS

EVENT/ CAUSE WHEN AND WHO BACKROUND KEY EVENTS STRENGHTS WEAKNESSES
WAS INVOLVED
Montgomery bus boycott 1955 Claudette Colvin - 300 carpools 1956 NAACP won Browder VS only affected Montgome
Women’s political council- WPC complaining to - King and E.D Nixon homes Gayle and Alabama buses. Sup
lead by Jo Robinson city officials since bombed during the boycott Catupulted MLK into fame court ruling although wa
Montgomery Improvement 1954 - King alongside 80 other Lead to the establishment of into place, colour bar wa
association Women with two leaders were indicated under a the SCLC in 1957- founded by enforced. Black passeng
ED Nixon and NAACP leader children 1921 anti conspiracy law MLK, Rusting, Shuttlesworth, faced harassment and
Montgomery City Abernathy – Birmingham, violence by WCC, report
lines Selma, voter registration snipers shooting at buse
40,00 people- 90% drives and leading the 1963 Argue that greater chan
of the cities black march on Washington occurred with key pieces
bus ridership MIA’s tactics of combining legislation such as civil r
mass nonviolent protest with act and voting rights act
Christian ethics became the
model for challenging
segregation in the South.
Little Rock crisis 1957 Brown Vs Board of - Governor Orval Fabus who - Eisenhower order - Legal rulings co
NAACP education 1954 faced a tough reelection 101 Airborne division challenge ruling
Eckford, Green, Pattilo, Brown, campaign, campaigned against to protect the themselves
Ray and Roberts, Mothershed, integration and used the students - Governor Faubu
Thomas, Walls national guard to prevent them - May 1958 Ernest shut schools fo
from entering- federal gov Greem became first another year
ruled against this African American to
- 9 individuals were attacked graduate from a
central high school
- TV-NBC, CBS AND
ABC
- Cooper Vs Aaron
1958
Sits Ins 1960-Greensboro four- Blair, Due to Jim Crow - Woolworths counter- four - Showed nonviolence - Protesters often
Freedom rides Richmond, McCain and Laws stayed for an hour after the was effective- or met with attack
McNeil- 700,000 people store closed example James Jackson Woolwo
participated by 1971 – spread - In October 1960 Atlanta Lawson lead sit in – beaten –
to 100 cities - NAACP student leaders convinced King workshops on - Some business
1961 to participate in a sit-in at Ghanaian simply closed
Rich’s, a local department nonviolence counters instea
store. King and about 300 - Establishment of integrating
students were arrested SNCC
- Happened in Nashville and
Atlanta
Birmingham campaign May 1963 Desegregation of - King first struggled to organize - Huge widespread - Limited change
Over 3000 public facilities and as it was Eugene bulls reaction - Economic issue
SCLC equal employment retirement - Local leaders agreed persisted

, opportunities - King arrested – letter from to desradation and - Children’s crus
Birmingham Birmingham also realised - 4 girls died in a
epitomized horrors - Sprayed with water hoses, protestors church
of southern beaten etc - Influenced Kennedy
segregation civil rights act
King knew harsh
responses but
wanted sympathy
March on Washington Included Randolph, James 1941 Phillip - Goals included: federal - MLK speech - Civil rights act
Farmer of CORE and Charles Randolph protection of coting rights, fair - Boosted support enacted a year
McDew of SNCC> threatened a march employment practices act, - Demonstration of - Marches deman
Over 200,000 against segregation desegregation of public schools unity – NAACP, SCLC, were not met
August 1963 in defense industry - Marched on Lincoln Memorial SNCC, CORE
lead to executive - After the march, King
order 8802 and and other civil rights
creation of fair leaders met with
employment President Kennedy
practices and Vice President
Smaller marches in Lyndon
1957+58 including B. Johnson at the
prayer pilgrimage White House, where
and youth march for they discussed the
integrated schools need for bipartisan
Goals for equal support of civil rights
employment legislation
remained unsolved
White racist organizations WCC- Peaked in 1956 with Established after - WCC- pressured insurance - -
WCC 250,000 members – 1954 Brown Vs Board of companies to council policies
established education for church owned vehicles used
Members were during the Montgomery vs
doctors politicians Boycott
etc - Montgomery mayor Gayle
joined in 1965 WCC
- Medgar Evans was killed by
WCC
- Eisenhower ignored kings
pleads to investigate the group
- WCC- sponsored schools for
white children
- Yazoo city missipi- 53 blacks
signed petitions t integrate
schools al 53 lost their jobs
KKK - Established 1982 - 40 carloads of hooded men through - -
Montgomery
Bombed kings house 1956
Attack on freedom riders in Birmingham
1963
Bombed a Birmingham church in 1963

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