HST 210 Lecture Notes - Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bobby Seale, Montgomery Improvement Association
8 Sep 2013
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The persistence of segregation and disenfranchisement in the south: segregation was still the law, aas cannot vote, by 1940s, only 5% of aas in the south were registered to vote. The activities of civil rights organizations such as the naacp (court challenges) and core (direct action) and the black church: national association for the advancement of coloured people founded in 1909 by whites and blacks >interracial. Naacp focuses on using legal system/courts to fight. Congress of racial equality discrimination/segregation founded in 1942 in chicago interracial group of pacifists: uses direct action to confront discrimination. The support of white liberals: became concerned with dichotomy between us desire to make world safe for democracy and the treatment of aas at home, white americans join civil rights organizations and provide money. The crm was the product of large-scale political and social forces that had been percolating for a long time.
