A | B |
Booker T Washington | Born slave April 5, 1856 in VA; Foundation of Tuskegee Institute, 1881; Gradual progress=best |
WEB Dubois | Born Feb 23, 1868 in MA; 1st AfAm PhD in Harvard in 1895 |
WEB Dubois 2 | demanded immediate racial equality; opposed all laws that treated AfAms differently |
WEB Dubois 3 | Founded NAACP in 1901–oldest CR org. in US |
Great Migration | 300,000 to 1,000,000 AfAms moved North for jobs from WWI |
1915 | Grandfather clause outlawed: SC outlawed it |
1919 | Red Summer: Blood red, from all the race riots |
1938 | MO vs Gaines–ok to have separate but equal law school; if no AfAm law school, had to go to white law school |
Philip Randolph | Double V Campaign for rights; March on WA |
Executive Order 8802 | Fair Employment Practices Committee–enforced to promote equal treatment in fed govt |
CORE – Congress of Racial Equaliy 1942 | beginning of mass equal rights movement, mostly white membership in beginning; became AfAm |
GI Bill | produced educated leaders |
1947 | Jackie Robinson joins Brooklyn Dodgers |
1948 - Executive Order 9981 | Truman integrates the army |
1954 Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, KS | Parents of kid wanted to send her to white school since it was closer |
1954 Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, KS 2 | “in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” |
Interposition resolutions | states can decided how they will treat their citizens, not feds |
Interposition resolutions 2 | Eisenhower was sad with decision but knew his obligation |