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briefer discussion on its relationship to the women's movement.
 * Gilder Lehrman Lecture on Civil Rights Movement along with

Ayers ties many events together and asserts (towards the end of his lecture) that a change in _ led to societal evolution. || https://www.gilderlehrman.org/multimedia#3335 ||

Upfront Civil Rights Articles: http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/upfront_topics/index.asp?article=civilrights

Got to have: 1978 Allan Bakke claimed he wasn't admitted to medical school because he was African American. Supreme Court declared: 1.) Preference in admissions couldn't be given to members of any group, minority or majority, on the basis of race and ethnicity alone. 2.) Racial factors might be taken into account in admission policy for purposes of assembling a diverse student population.

Got to Have: Slaves have always been thought to be the reason for the Civil War. In reality the numbers of families owning slaves wasn't that high. 1,733 own 100 or more slaves 6,196 own 50 - 99 29,733 own 20 - 49 54,595 own 10 - 19 80,765 own 5 - 9 105.683 own 2 - 4 68,820 own 1 each

The following are the topics of African Americans in order of pg number so this is just a start we will obviously fix it later.

Slave Culture - pg 72, 73, 361 Music - pg 73, 75, 339, 590, 741 numbers in late 1700 - pg 84-85 American Revolution - pr 137, 138, 462 Loyalist - pg 148-49 emancipated - pg 167 War of 1812 - pg 236, 462 KKK - pg 245, 495, 496, 722-23 education - pg 325, 362, 482, 484, 575-76, 894, 1029 free, in antebellum period - pg356-59 abolitionist movement - pg 357, 364-66, 492-93 Civil War - pg 462-64, 482 Freedmen's Bureau 478, 484, 489, 501 religion - pg 482 rights post CW - pg 487 black codes - pg 487-88 in Government - pg 494-95, 990 voting rights - pg 494, 505, 525, 890, 924-25, 1028 women - pg 494, 569, 588, 1029 NAACP - pg 500, 575, 829, 891, 893, 985 Depression of 1871 - pg 508 sharecropping and tenant - pg 512 Jim Crow laws - pg 512-13, 525, 890, 891 discrimination - pg 513 lynchings - pg 513, 525 quality of life - pg 513 Populism - pg 524-25 Colored Farmers' National Alliance - pg 524 work - pg 546, 569 labor unions - pg 552, 554, 556 literary contributions - pg 584-845, 1031 cowboys - pg 608 race riots - pg 702 WWI - pg 702, 706, 711 Harlem - pg 741-42 United Negro Improvement Society - pg 741-42 shift to FDR - pg 773

= MISFELDT = Pg 890 Desegregating
 * 15 million African Americans in 1950
 * 2/3 still in South
 * Jim Crow Laws still ruled southern society
 * Segregated public facilities
 * http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/jcrow02.htm

Jackie Robinson
 * first African American baseball player
 * faced many insults and hate but was very successful

Sweatt v. Parker
 * ruled that separate professional schools for blacks failed to meet the test of equality

Rosa Parks
 * bus act--- sparked year-long black boycott of Atlanta busses
 * Broght Martin Luther King Jr. to the public eye

Brown v. Board of Education
 * school segregation unconstitutional
 * federal troops called in to escort black students to school
 * Ruled Plessy v. Ferguson unconstitutional

Civil Rights Act
 * passed by President Eisenhower in 1957
 * MLK formed Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to mobilize the power of black churches in the civil rights movement

21st Century
 * Los Angeles race riots52% of blacks lived in the cities
 * started when white jury exonerated white cops for beating black suspect
 * single women headed 43% of black families in 2002
 * 33% of black families above the middle class line
 * 17% had bachelor's degrees
 * 17% had bachelor's degrees

Page 1031 Literacy
 * many African American playwrites, musicians, singers, writers

Pg 859 The Great Migration http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=443
 * "White Flight' to the suburbs
 * left cities open for migrating blacks
 * brought with them poverty

pg 945 Philadelphia Plan
 * required gov't operations in Philadelphia to hire so many minorities (including blacks)
 * Griggs v Duke Power Company
 * prohibited intelligence tests to keep minorities out

1970's > 2.) Racial factors might be taken into account in admission policy for purposes of assembling a diverse student population.
 * Milliken v Bradley1978 Allan Bakke claimed he wasn't admitted to medical school because he was African American. Supreme Court declared:1.) Preference in admissions couldn't be given to members of any group, minority or majority, on the basis of race and ethnicity alone.
 * in the middle of trying to integrate schools
 * ruled that students couldn't cross school district lines in the process
 * made desegregation of schools very hard because whites in suburbs and blacks in middle of city

1960's Civil Rights
 * race riots in South had President Kennedy worried
 * Kennedy and MLK joined forces and Kennedy encouraged MLK ot fight segregation
 * 1962- James Meredith tried to enroll in college at the University of MIssissippi
 * Kennedy sent in 3000 federal troops and 400 federal marshals to restore order and let him attend school

MLK in Birmingham
 * Birmingham the most segregated big city in the U.S.
 * MLK organized peaceful sit-ins
 * White police responded with dogs, firehoses, electric cattle prods
 * Kennedy responded by calling for new civil rights legislation
 * Kennedy responded by calling for new civil rights legislation

Vietnam = =
 * draft exclude college students and critical civilians
 * this meant that mostly young African American men served in Vietnam
 * Disproportionately high share of combat fatalities

Civil Rights Era

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