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Emancipation proclamation |
1863 |
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American civil war |
1861-65 |
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Enfranchisement of all except women |
1870 |
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Registered black voters Louisiana |
1896 - 130,000 1904 - 1,300 |
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KKK revived |
1915 |
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Plessy v Ferguson |
1896 - Supreme Court rules that despite 14th amendment separate but equal is ok |
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Northern migration |
1917-32 |
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UNIA |
Founded 1920s - Universal Negro Improvement Association - Large Secular organisation for African Americans by Marcus Garvey |
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NAACP |
National Association of the Advancement of Coloured People - established 1909 |
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Resettlement Administration |
Set up May 1935 to give financial aid in form of loans to farmers but only helped 3k/200k black farmers. |
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Petition to get help to go to Africa |
1939, signed by 2m |
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Black population of Chicago doubles |
1940-1950 |
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Executive order 8802 |
1941 - no racial desctimination in the defence industry (not army) overseen by Fair Employment Practices Committee |
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Philip A Randolph threatens march |
On Washington, 1941, about discrimination in employment - especially military |
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CORE |
Congress of Racial Equality 1942 |
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Civil rights committee Truman |
1946 |
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'To Secure These Rights' |
1947 - report from civil rights committee |
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2 Executive orders by Truman on civil rights |
1948 - desegregate military, fair employment practices in civil service |
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Federal Employment Board |
1948 - equal treatment in federal employment agencies |
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White citizens council |
1954 - to fight desegregation and civil rights |
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NAACP gain members |
1940 - 50k 1950 - 500k |
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Silent Protest Parade |
1917 - 10k black peoples March in NY against anti-black protests and lunching that year |
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Brown v Board of Education |
1954- Supreme Court rules separate but equal public schools were unconstitutional |
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Death of Emmett Till |
1955 |
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Montgomery bus boycotts |
Dec 1955 - Dec 1956 lasting 380 days |
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% of Montgomery bus users who are black |
75% - 90% of which boycotted busus |
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SCLC |
1956 during bus boycotts by MLK |
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Supreme Court rules bus segregation unconstitutional |
Nov 1956 |
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Eisenhower's civil rights legislation |
1957 - so all Americans could exercise the right to vote, set up civil rights commission to gather info on this 1960 - federal inspections of voting places and penalties to those who tried to get in way |
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% increase in black voting by 1960 |
3% |
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Little Rock |
1957 - Elizabeth Eckford was photographed walking through angry mob to return home after being turned away by National Guard under order of Faubus - Eisenhower sent federal troops |
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Greensboro sit-ins |
Started on 1st Feb 1960 |
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Woolworth's deseregates |
July 1960 |
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SNCC |
1960 - racially intergrated students |
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Freedom rides |
1961 |
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ICC order interstate terminals to show signs offering desegregated seating |
Interstate Commerce Commission - Nov 1961 |
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Albany, Georgia |
SNCC SCLC both involved in protesting against segregation 1961-62 |
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Lordy Pritchett |
Chief of police in Albany for the 1961-62 campaign |
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Battle of Ole Miss |
1962 James Meredith denied entry to university of Mississippi, went to court, won, ordered to be allowed in, protests broke out between those for and those against. Robert Kennedy was his attorney |
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JFK outlaws poll tax as a way of qualifying voters |
1962 |
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'Bull' Connor |
Chief of police in Birmingham |
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Protests in Birmingham start |
3rd April 1963 |
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Birmingham protests w children |
2nd-5th May 1963 |
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% of Americans who thought race was America's most pressing issue |
42% after Birmingham, 4% before |
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March on Washington |
August 1963 |
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JFK meets w black leaders to win support for civil rights legislation |
May-July 1963 |
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4 little girls killed |
September 1963 - 16th Street Baptist church bombing Birmingham |
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'Freedom Summer' |
1964 - SNCC push voting registration, murders and violence & 1.6k/17k black ppl accepted as voters |
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LBJ's CR act |
July 1964 - no segregation or discrimination, schools desegregate immediately, no discrimination in bigger businesses - others in 3 years, |
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% of the pop who favoured CR legislation by 1964 |
68% |
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Selma |
1965 (after CR act 1964, before that in 1965) |
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black people that could vote by early 1965 Selma |
300/15,000 |
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LBJ's Voting Rights Act |
1965 - all devices used to stop black voters are abolished and federal agents sent to register where under half of the black population are registered |
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Malcolm X goes to Mecca |
Spring 1964 |
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Malcolm X (unsuccessfully) form the Organisation for African American Unity |
1964 |
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Malcolm X assassinated |
Feb 1965 |
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James Farmer of CORE replaced |
by Floyd McKissik 1966 - decline of CORE bc denies help from white people |
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new leader of SNCC |
Stokeley Carmichael 1966 - decline of SNCC bc Carmichael leaves to join Black Panthers |
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Black panthers set up |
1966 |
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Newton convicted of manslaughter, Seale accused |
1967 |
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Black panthers die down |
1969 |
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King assassinated |
4 April 1968 |
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CR Act after MLK's death |
10 April 1968 fairer access to housing |
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King in Chicago |
1966 |
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Black population of Chicago |
700,000/3m |
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Low turn-out rally in chicago |
July - only 30,000 out of expected 100,000 |
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King leaves Chicago |
Autumn 1966 |
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King publishes 'Where do we go from here?' |
1967 |
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King's last campaign |
March 1968, protest w sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee |
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Swan v Charlotte Mecklenburg |
1971 - SC upholds bussing |
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SC rules that white children should not be bussed into the inner-cities |
1974 |
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Carter appoints black man as US ambassador to UN |
Andrew Young |
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Statistics to show black people hadnt made that much progress by 1980 |
- half all black children lived below the poverty line -membership of KKK tripled 1970s -average black wages were half that of white counterparts -high crime in ghettos |
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Statistics to show black people had made progress by 1980 |
-1/3 of black people = middle class -number of black officials nearly reflected their proportion in the population -sports and entertainment celebs |
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ASWPL |
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching - 1930 got 1355 ppl sign |
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show FEPC weren't that successful |
1942 250k Ford workers in Detroit strike bc black women had been added to workforce |
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by 1957 CR Act % of black Southeners not registered to vote |
80% |
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violence when MLK dies |
1968 disturbances in 130 diff cities 130 deaths |
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Nixon funds all white segregationist priv school |
1974 |
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Office of minority bussiness enterprise |
Brought in by Nixon - to encourage black business |