Race riots breakout due to resentment of migration Red
Summer
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St. Louis Race Riots Oklahoma North Carolina Detroit
Atlanta
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Most influential movement of African American literature!
Bessie Smith Josephine Baker Louis Armstrong Langston Hughes Harlem
Renaissance
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African Americans move from South to North Rural to Urban Areas
The GREAT MIGRATION
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Socioeconomic Opportunities Increase in National Organizations
like NAACP Improve Literacy Uplifting the Race Great Migration
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A study on the effects of Syphilis on 400 African American men
was started. The men were never told or given treatment for the
disease. President Bill Clinton will apologize in 1997, 65 years
later!
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Jessie Owens Wins 4 gold medals at the Berlin games. 100 meter
200 meter 4x 100 meter relay Long Jump
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Adolf Hitler refuses to shake Gold Medal winner! Nazi Party
propaganda showed Africans as racially inferior. Olympic games were
supposed to demonstrate the Aryan supremacy!
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Joe Louis Boxing Heavyweight Champion First African American
athlete that broke down the sport racial barrier!
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Jackie Robinson 1 st Professional Baseball Player 1 st Black
athlete to Letter in 4 sports in college Baseball Basketball
Football Track Other teams threatened to forfeit, hurled racial
slurs, plus gave him a seven inch cut on arm. He never fought back!
MLB of Year 1947 MVP of Year 1949
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Jackies other Roles in the Civil Right Movement Court Martialed
from army for not moving to the back of the bus Built houses for
low income families through the Robinson Construction Co. Marched
on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr.
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RED TAILS 1948 United States Army was Desegregated
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1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme court rules that
segregation of school is illegal.
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Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott last one year!
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1956 United States Supreme Court rules that Segregation on
buses in Alabama is illegal.
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1962 Cesar Chavez Worked for Latino Civil Rights La Causa
Organized the Grape March 1,000 of migrant workers marched 341
miles to Sacramento His motto was "Si Se Puede "Yes, it can be
done".
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Little Rock Nine US Army upholds African American Civil Rights
by escorting students to school.
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John Carlos and Tommy Smith Olympic Project for Human Rights
Raise their fist in the air, to make a stand
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Against the draft since they were guaranteed civil rights, why
should they have to fight? Threw Gold Medal away Joins Nation of
Islam Becomes Muhammad Ali
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Helped organize March on Washington. Over 250,000 people
attended this march in an effort to show the importance of civil
rights Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott His house was bombed, and he
was arrested Believed in non-violent protests Assassinated in
1968
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of Indian
nationalism in British-ruled India. He would get large groups to
refuse to work, sitting in the streets, boycotting the courts, and
more. Each of these protests are small by themselves, but when most
of the population does them at once, it can shut down the
country.
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Nelson Mandela was a civil rights leader in South Africa.civil
rightsSouth Africa He fought against apartheid, a system where non-
white citizens were segregated from whites and did not have equal
rights.apartheid He spent 27 years in prison. South African
Presidentt
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Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Thurgood Marshall Elizabeth
Stanton Mother Teresa Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Booker T.
Washington Ida B. Wells
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No war or fighting
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Rights inherent to all
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Understanding each group is unique Respect for things
different.
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Using laws to fairly judge
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Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and
others under every condition. It comes from the belief that hurting
people, animals or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an
outcome