Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement Segregation was an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in every sphere of life and to achieve supremacy over blacks. Segregation was often called the Jim Crow system‚ after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who was an old‚ crippled‚ black slave who embodied negative stereotypes of blacks. Segregation became common in Southern states following the end of Reconstruction in 1877. During Reconstruction‚ which followed the Civil War (1861-1865)
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grew from this era‚ including reforms on state and national levels. During the progressive era woman organized the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) which was founded in 1869 as well as the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. The National American Woman Suffrage Association effort brought on the right for women to vote in 1920‚ women of the west had earned the right before those in southern states. The NAWSA was formed in response to a split in the American
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Anne Moody Coming of Age in Mississippi The autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody is the story of her life as a poor black girl growing into adulthood. Moody chose to start at the beginning - when she was four-years-old‚ the child of poor sharecroppers working for a white farmer. She overcomes obstacles such as discrimination and hunger as she struggles to survive childhood in one of the most racially discriminated states in America. In telling the story of her life‚ Moody
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was conceived on February 23‚ 1868‚ in Incredible Barrington‚ Massachusetts‚ to Alfred and Mary Silvina (née Burghardt) Du Bois. Mary Silvina Burghardt’s family was a piece of the little free dark populace of Extraordinary Barrington and had since a long time ago claimed land in the state. She was plummeted from Dutch‚ African and English progenitors. William Du Bois’ maternal incredible extraordinary granddad was Tom Burghardt‚ a slave (conceived in West Africa around
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Burnett‚ the head of Topeka’s branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and asked for help. They were eager to help the Browns since it had long wanted to challenge segregation public schools. Other black parents joined Brown‚ and‚ in 1951‚ the NAACP requested an injunction that would forbid the segregation of Topeka’s public schools. Brown and the NAACP appealed to the Supreme Court on October 1‚ 1951 and their case was combined with other cases that challenged
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Thing: The NAACP’s Hollywood Bureau of 1946–A Cautionary Tale” In the article the author main point is that Walter White extended a great effort in combating racism and classic stereotypes in Hollywood in the 1940’s. The author feels like the new NAACP Bureau does a better job at including African Americans in every part of movie making. In 1946‚ the big screen was coming to life and the world was being exposed to movie after movie. Most of the movies that were released were white actors filling
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Katherine "Flossie" Bailey‚ was a Hoosier leader for justice and equality. She was a Marion resident‚ Civil Rights leader and President of the Marion branch of the Indiana NAACP. She worked tirelessly - but unfortunately unsuccessfully - with the Indiana Attorney General in an attempt to bring the racist perpetrators of the heinous 1930 Marion Indiana lynchings of Thomas Shipp (age 17) and Abram Smith (age 18) and the attempted lynching of Dr. James Cameron (age 16) to justice. However‚ her work
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Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka 1954 Oliver Brown and 12 other plaintiffs (names undisclosed) brought suit against the Board of Education with the help of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). During this time in history segregation existed in some facets of our educational system. In the state of Kansas‚ to be more precise Topeka‚ segregation was dominant among elementary schools. A group consisting of Oliver Brown and 12 other parents (20
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examples of segregation rules that blacks had to obey‚ in fear of violence. * NAACP worked for decades to obtain equality‚ through court cases‚ speeches and marches. How significant was their role in the early years? * What impact did WW2 have on blacks in the 1940s? Give specific examples. * * The South was determined to resist change to the returning black war heroes. * In the 1950s the NAACP brought the issue of equality among blacks and whites to the Supreme Court on
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1. Descriptive field notes: Physical description of the document: The Size of the document is one page with two columns‚ each column being 12 x 4 inches in size. The shape of the material is taken from the newspaper which was originally published in 1963 or 1968. This document is the original publication taken from the local newspaper at the time. The size of the text is 11‚ and the color is black. the article contains eight pictures of those who participated successfully in the organization
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