HIS153 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Montgomery Bus Boycott
3 Jun 2020
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Executive 9981: desegregated armed forces in 1948. Congress of racial equality: 1942 influence by gandhi"s nonviolent techniques to end racism and helped freedom buses. 1955 montgomery bus boycott led by rosa parks was desegregated. Little rock 1957 first white school with 9 black students in arkansas. Eisenhower enforces by bringing army (101th air force) Arkansas governor orval faubus wanted stop rock nine group from entering school. Southern christian leadership conference (sclc) to challenge racism 1957 with mlk. 24th amendment: makes poll taxes illegal 1964. Bloody sunday: 1965 a march in alabama is about to begin when officers attack them. Medgar evers a director of the naacp was shot to death. 1954 brown v. board of education overturned plessy v. ferguson. Thurgood marshall helped pass the case because he was supreme court justice that argued for the civil rights of others. Student nonviolent coordinating committee (sncc) 1960 kept black resistance against segregation alive. Give blacks political efficacy by registering voters.
