HISTORY 7B Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Strom Thurmond, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Flags Of The Confederate States Of America
03/19/18
Civil Rights
- Big deal to dismantle Jim Crow
- Open facilities to black -- establish their right to vote
- Second Reconstruction (50s & 60s)
- 13, 14, 15 Amendment
- Jim Crow was a relentless reminder that African Americans weren’t good enough
● I. Postwar politics of racism
○ Northern Liberals and Southern white supremacists
○ By 1948: Democratic National Convention
■ African Americans protesting (picketing)
■ Announcing that it was time the Democratic party went towards human
rights
■ Southern white supremacists marched out waving a confederate flag and
formed the States Rights Party
○ States Rights Party ‘Dixie Crafts’
■ Strom Thurmond: ran for president
○ President called for desegregation of the Military
○ Soviet Anti-Racist Propaganda
■ Soviets wanted to make it seem like they did not believe in racism
○ 1955 Houston Airport:
■ Restaurant refused to serve the ambassador of India because he was not
white
● II. Segregation
○ A. Brown decision (1954)
■ Battle against Jim Crow
■ Brown v Board of Education
● Ruled that segregation made kids feel inferior and this could not be
overturned
● ** only applied to public schools not private or religious school
● Banned segregation laws (white people __, black people __), not
de facto segregation (segregation on the ground based on where
people live)
● Ordered school districts to desegregate at an ‘all deliberate speed’,
by 1960, less than 1% of african american children were attending
segregated schools
■ Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools could not be allowed under
the 14th amendment -- equal protection under the law
■ Case was organized and managed by the NAACP’s legal defense fund
■ Thurgood Marshall
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Document Summary
Open facilities to black -- establish their right to vote. Jim crow was a relentless reminder that african americans weren"t good enough. Announcing that it was time the democratic party went towards human rights. Southern white supremacists marched out waving a confederate flag and formed the states rights party. President called for desegregation of the military. Soviets wanted to make it seem like they did not believe in racism. Restaurant refused to serve the ambassador of india because he was not. Ruled that segregation made kids feel inferior and this could not be overturned. ** only applied to public schools not private or religious school. Banned segregation laws (white people __, black people __), not de facto segregation (segregation on the ground based on where people live) Ordered school districts to desegregate at an all deliberate speed", by 1960, less than 1% of african american children were attending segregated schools.
