PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Montgomery Bus Boycott, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968), Jim Crow Laws
6 Nov 2015
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Described as a peace that would bring communities together, promote a more inclusive form of social justice and dignity. Demands more than the absence of conflict, and so is dynamic and continuous. While ideas of peace had expanded by the 1960, peace activism still often motivated by concept of negative peace. 1600s-1860s: atlantic slave trade, legalized slavery in us. 1865: end of civil war/thirteenth amendment abolishes slavery. 1870: fifteenth amendment guarantees voting rights/first jim crow laws. 1870s-1950s: jim crow era, enforced racial segregation in the south. 1954: us supreme court declares segregation in schools unconstitutional. 1964: civil rights act passed/martin luther king jr. received nobel peace prize. 1965: malcolm x assassinated/selma to montgomery march/voting rights act. Jim crow laws enforce racial segregation all legal laws discriminating against blacks in all types of ways except slavery (different states had different laws with discrimination still taking place in the background)
