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OLD LAWS IGNORED -14th Amendment -15 th Amendment -Constitution was ignored by legal system and citizens
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NEW POLICIES ENFORCED -racial etiquette -Jim Crow laws -Segregation Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 Separate but Equal doctrine
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TIMES START TO CHANGE -WW II exposed racism -Truman’s civil rights agenda -Jackie Robinson -Warren Court Brown v. Board Ends Segregation 1954
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RESISTANCE BEGINS -Prior beginnings -NAACP had been fighting foe equality since its founding in 1909 -Vernon Johns -Rosa Parks 1955 Bus Segregation Montgomery, Ala. -Martin Luther King Bus boycotts
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RESISTANCE BEGINS -Prior beginnings -NAACP had been fighting foe equality since its founding in 1909 -Vernon Johns -Rosa Parks 1955 Bus Segregation Montgomery, Ala. -Martin Luther King Bus boycotts
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. -pastor at Dexter Ave Church at age 26 -belief in non-violent resistance Gandhi Henry David Thoreau -movement is battle for public opinion -became leader of the movement -SCLC -SNCC
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CRISIS IN SCHOOLING -Brown v. Board -Resistance to integration -Little Rock Central Little Rock Nine 1957 Governor orders National Guard to stop black students -Use of Federal troops by Eisenhower to integrate
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CRISIS IN SCHOOLING -Brown v. Board -Resistance to integration -Little Rock Central Little Rock Nine 1957 Governor orders National Guard to stop black students -Use of Federal troops by Eisenhower to integrate
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CRISIS IN SCHOOLING -Brown v. Board -Resistance to integration -Little Rock Central Little Rock Nine 1957 Governor orders National Guard to stop black students -Use of Federal troops by Eisenhower to integrate
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