HIST 2013 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Double V Campaign, Little Rock Nine, Desegregation
25 Aug 2016
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A seat at the table: origins of the freedom movement. Origins of the movement: world war ii, double v (victory) campaign: Black workers march on washington fdr passes anti-discrimination laws. North vs. south: impact of the cold war. Us suggesting freedom central to us and its identity. Also makes it easy to dismiss early civil rights leaders (socialists, communists, Fascists focusing on negatives: south going head-to-head with jim crow laws, north happening in the north but it"s just kind of the system . The legal assault on segregation: plessy v. ferguson 1896, naacp formed 1909 main legal advocate for african americas challenging segregation. Brown vs. board of education 1954: desegregation of public schools. South dedicated to jim crow system and we will resist brown vs. boe at all costs. First time troops sent into own area since reconstruction era. Doesn"t address economic inequality: think issues of white flight and urban decline, explicit vs.
