AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Little Rock Nine, Little Rock, Arkansas, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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So important to civil rights movement because it kept it solely out of the south. Six million african americans leave south, move north and west. Segregation/ jim crow: the idea that african americans need to be separated from whites in every aspect of life, it"s on the books that everyone has rights, so black people were trying to enforce them. Wwii: african americans were drafted into the war to fight for freedom for people they didn"t even know, they started to notice african people in other countries who are not treated as poorly as. Lots of lynching of african american people in uniform. Naacp: african american lawyers and people trying to get constitutional laws to be followed. Plessy v. ferguson (1896: separate but equal , legalizing segregation, starts fighting thousands of cases because segregation is everywhere. Chief justice earl warren: fighting for the desegregation of public schools.
