HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Bull Connor, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Massive Resistance
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1948 shelley vs. kraemer: restrictive real-estate covenant struck down as invalid. So now blacks could live anywhere their pocketbook could let them, progress slow but still us supreme court in favor of african americans. 1954 brown vs. board: topeka, ks. Collection of school segregation cases that made their way to the sc by way of the naacp"s legal defense fund: overturned plessey vs. ferguson (1896, separate but equal, viewed as fictional). Brown went out and said separate was unequal. Brown specifically referring to education, but the implications were clear. Unanimous decision, moral statement on right and wrong. Moral argument segregation is wrong. impact on black communities: peeps became more optimistic, rising expectations, more organizations for civil rights. 1955: brown ii: sc ruled on remedy, said desegregation should take place with all deliberate speed . Basically organized in every major town/city in the south, became influential on putting heat on white who looked like they might acquiesce to civil rights.
