Event | When and where did it happen? | Who was involved?Actions taken?Strategy? | What were the key events? Was it legal? | What was achieved? Implications? | Emmett Till | | | | | GreensBoro Sit Ins | February 1st 1960 | Lots of students‚ Ezell Blair‚ SNCC‚ White protestors. 4 black teenagers refuse to not be served at lunch counter and sit there all day causing massive civil right movement. | Key Events: * Ezell Blair and 3 friends request to be served at white lunch counter but get
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During the Jim Crow Era‚ widespread segregation came to limit bodily ownership for women of color‚ and placed restrictions on their individual freedoms by placing black women in a category below whites. African American women during the early and mid-twentieth centuries had to fight for the right to their own bodies due to the color of their skin‚ and were victim to legalized prejudice. However‚ these instances of discrimination were not taken lightly. Activists such as Rosa Parks sought to eliminate
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Response- Future Prediction. Educational Opportunities The Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 How have historical events‚ like the Brown v. Board of Education decision‚ shaped the landscape of educational opportunities for African Americans‚ and what lingering challenges persist today? A comprehensive and equitable education policy is implemented‚ addressing historical disparities and ensuring equal access to quality education for all students‚ irrespective of their racial or socio-economic
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Historical and Cultural context of the Musical Hairspray The Buddy Dean Show which was a teen dance show in Baltimore is memorialized in the musical and film by John Waters‚ Hairspray. The plot of this story revolves around an attempt in which teens from both backgrounds in Baltimore integrate successfully in a teen dance show called The Corny Collins show. There was a massive cultural revolution in musical taste in the ‘50s and ‘60s that was signalled by teens from the big band sound of rock and
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other ethnicities had a high chance of getting into the school since they would get more points. This lead to “the University violating the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise of equal protection by discriminating against Gratz and Grutter” (Gratz v. Bollinger; Grutter v. Bollinger). The Court was also mentioning the point system of adding twenty points to the applicants score wasn’t smart (Summary of Supreme Court). Now since “the Court also held that the Law School’s goal of attaining a critical mass of
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becoming unsupportive of civil rights. By the end of the 1890’s the more rigid system of racial segregation emerged with the problems between the Populists and the Democrats in the 1892 election and also with the Supreme Court’s decision in the case Plessy v. Ferguson. Before the election of 1892‚ the blacks had broken away from the Democrats and followed the evolving Populist Party. During the election though‚ the Democrats were very deceitful in order to gain back the votes of the black community. They
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became sluggish was the NAACP had a legal approach which had somewhat proved useful in the past with Thurgood Marshall‚ however it took time to gain results and further progress in the civil rights movement using this method. For example even the Brown decision of 1954 to a large amount of time to draw a decision and although it was a great triumph for the civil rights campaign proved to be to no avail as no date was set‚ therefore all the work done to erode the Plessey Ferguson ruling of separate
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Plessy’s lawyers argued that the segregation deprived him of his rights of equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Later the Supreme Court ruling upheld the Louisiana segregation statute‚ a 8-1 decision. Justice Henry Brown ruled that the law required separation of the races‚ and did not deny Plessy his rights‚ nor implied that he was inferior. After the ruling by the Supreme Court‚ the Fourteenth Amendment no longer gave black Americans the right of equal treatment under
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Griggs v. Duke Power FACTS: The case originated in a lawsuit filed by Willie Griggs and twelve other African-American employees of Duke Power’s Dan River hydroelectric plant in Draper‚ North Carolina. Before the passage of the Civil Rights Act‚ Duke Power discriminated against African-Americans in hiring and promotion‚ restricting them to the company’s Labor department. In 1955‚ Duke Power instituted a high school diploma requirement for initial hiring in any department except Labor. (The other
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Bob Smith Sept. 6‚ 2004 MGMT 331-904 The Griggs v. Duke Power Company was a landmark case regarding discrimination in the workplace. Duke Power Company was known for discriminating against blacks during the hiring process by only allowing them to work in it’s labor department which was the lowest paying position. After the Civil Rights Act was passed‚ obviously the company was no longer allowed to discriminate legally based on race. However‚ the company became sneaky and required a high school
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