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42_civil_rights_part_1_1.pptxCivil Rights
Part one
Context for CR movement
Development of national racial policy
1875: no Jim Crow laws, black suffrage
1925: Jim Crow laws, little black voter registration, restrictions on Italians and Jews
Early opposition against Jim Crow
1909: NAACP founded
Court cases:
Buchanan v. Warley (1917)
Murray v. Maryland (1935)
Gaines v. Canada (1939)
Morgan v. Virginia (1947)
Three Strategies
Three ideas of attacking Plessy
Desire to attack head on
Desire to go slow and avoid defeat
Some middle-class blacks opposed desegregation attempts for fear of losing jobs
NAACP Cases in 1950s:
Briggs v. Elliot, Davis v. Prince Edward Co., Brown v. Board of Education
Lead by local blacks, usually poor and without middle-class support.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Linda Brown had to attend black school which was farther from her house than the white school (and not equal)
Based on the 14th Amendment
9-0 decision overturned Plessy
After:
Beginning of Second Reconstruction
5 southern states try to nullify
Troops sent to Little Rock in 1957 to protect blacks at Central High School
