Timeline:
1777-1783 - North becomes more industrialised and urbanised
1861 - Civil war started
1863 - Abraham Lincoln signed proclamation freeing slaves
1865 - KKK formed
Jim Crow laws
North wins civil war
Slavery abolished
1909 - NAACP formed
1942 - CORE formed
1954 - Govt ruled against public separation
Brown vs board of education
1955 - Rosa Parks arrested
Montgomery bus boycotts
1956 - Supreme court outlawed bus segregation
1957 - SCLC formed
Little Rock desegregation
1960 - Greensboro sit-in
SNCC formed
1961 - Freedom rides
1963 - Birmingham march
Washington march
President Kennedy assassinated
1964 - Freedom summer
Civil rights act
1965 - Selma to Montgomery march
Voting rights act
LA riots (until 67)
1967 - Detroit riots
1968 - Dr King assassinated
Context:
CRM wanted integration and was NON-VIOLENT
Civil society - ordinary people, groups separate from the state
Movement - aims to influence and change attitudes of ppl & govt about an issue
Human rights - universal, rights of every single human being
Civil rights - dependent on country, rights of individual citizens
Federalism
- Each state has a right to govern itself
- Federal government in Washington DC (1)
- Supreme court (2)
- Each state has own government (3)
Therefore, even though segregation was outlawed by the federal government, the individual
states delayed implementing desegregation
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1777-1783 - North becomes more industrialised and urbanised
1861 - Civil war started
1863 - Abraham Lincoln signed proclamation freeing slaves
1865 - KKK formed
Jim Crow laws
North wins civil war
Slavery abolished
1909 - NAACP formed
1942 - CORE formed
1954 - Govt ruled against public separation
Brown vs board of education
1955 - Rosa Parks arrested
Montgomery bus boycotts
1956 - Supreme court outlawed bus segregation
1957 - SCLC formed
Little Rock desegregation
1960 - Greensboro sit-in
SNCC formed
1961 - Freedom rides
1963 - Birmingham march
Washington march
President Kennedy assassinated
1964 - Freedom summer
Civil rights act
1965 - Selma to Montgomery march
Voting rights act
LA riots (until 67)
1967 - Detroit riots
1968 - Dr King assassinated
Context:
CRM wanted integration and was NON-VIOLENT
Civil society - ordinary people, groups separate from the state
Movement - aims to influence and change attitudes of ppl & govt about an issue
Human rights - universal, rights of every single human being
Civil rights - dependent on country, rights of individual citizens
Federalism
- Each state has a right to govern itself
- Federal government in Washington DC (1)
- Supreme court (2)
- Each state has own government (3)
Therefore, even though segregation was outlawed by the federal government, the individual
states delayed implementing desegregation
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