AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock, Arkansas, Jim Crow Laws
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Steps to get civil rights used by african americans: law/courts litigation. Little by little, fight jim crow laws for each issue, water fountains, busing, schools. Goal is to get laws on the books. What brown v. board means to wasps, kids will be with black people. White citizens" council nickname white collar clan. Develops in large and small towns all over the u. s. Decides they"re not gonna follow brown v. board or the other cases naacp got passed. They make a pledge to not follow it. Kkk would lynch, burn things, intimidate, violence - extralegal stuff. White citizenship council they don"t do anything illegal they use economics. They fire black people in homes and businesses. They stop or shut down banks for black people, ones who had accounts just got shut down, or they wont give loans to black people. Southern manifesto government"s response to all this. Dwight eisenhower president didn"t want de-segregation/civil rights.
