Civil+Rights

Civil Rights in 1950s Truman’s civil rights committee: In 1947 Truman’s Civil Rights Committee recommended laws protecting the right of African Americans to vote and banning segregation on railroads and buses. It also called for a federal law punishing lynching. He issued executive orders ending segregation in the armed forces and prohibiting job discrimination in all government agencies. Brown V. the Board of Education (1954): In 1954 the Supreme Court made one of the most important decisions in its long history. It decided in the case of Brown v. Board Of Education of Topeka that it was unconstitutional for states to maintain separate schools for African American and white children. This case over turned the "Separate but equal" doctrine established in the case of Plessey V. Ferguson back in 1896.
 *  **__ AFRICAN AMERICAN RIGHTS __** ||  **__ WHITE AMERICANS __**  ||
 *  Racial Discrimination ||  White and Blue Color Employees  ||
 *  Restoring Suffrage ||  White Americans had prosperity  ||
 *  Emergence of the black power movement ||  Started the Birth of warehouse stores  ||
 *  NAACP, SNCC, CORE and SCLC, ||  Had consumer Frenzy  ||
 *  Southern Freedom Movement ||  Median family income doubled.  ||
 *  Boycotts || Factories that had inflation even had a 30 percent raise.. ||
 *  Montgomery Bus Boycotts 1955-1956 || Credit cards were made by American Express ||
 *  Had sit-ins || Divorce Rates Rose ||
 *  Marches || Sky Rocketing Additions to families. ||
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Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955): After the Supreme court decided to end segregation, African Americans started to speak out more about their racial opinions. In Montgomery, Alabama, a bus boycott ended with a victory for the African Americans. The Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama segregation laws were unconstitutional. During the boycott a young African American Baptist minister, Martin Luther King, Jr. became well known. Throughout the long contest he advised African Americans to avoid violence no matter had badly provoked by whites. Rosa Parks tired of sitting in the back of the bus, and giving up her seat to white men. One horridday she refused to move from the front of the bus, and she became one of history's heroes in the Civil Rights Act movement. = = =__What Are Civil Rights?__= =Civil Rights are rights that protect indiviuals freedom from unwarrented infringement by governments and private organizations.= Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical integrity and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as physical or mental disability, gender, religion, race, national origin, age, or sexual orientation; and individual rights such as the freedoms of thought and conscience, speech and expression, religion, the press, and movement. =__ What Are Political Rights? __= Political rights include natural justice (procedural fairness) in law, such as the rights of the accused, including the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy; and rights of participation in civil society and politics such as freedom of association, the right to assemble, the right to petition, and the right to vote.

(Civil Rights Heroes- added by **Courtright**)
 * CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES (and heroins) ;)**
 * 1) Mary McLeod Bethune- created schools for African-Americans
 * 2) John Brown- Led a raid on Harper's Ferry (stole army's weapons to help free slaves)
 * 3) Linda Brown- Faught the Board of Education of Topeka (read more about it in the above articles...)
 * 4) Rudy Bridges- Helped to abolish segregation
 * 5) Frederick Douglass- A poet and abolitionist, once a slave, who taught about slavery, and the slave owners and their dastardly methods
 * 6) Medgar Evers- was killed for fighting for equal education between the blacks and whites
 * 7) Marcus Garvey- Back to Africa Movement
 * 8) Jesse Jackson- Faught for equal employment (ran for president)
 * 9) John F. Kennedy- Wanted blacks to have voting rights and a good education (ended segregation in schools, jobs, theatres, etc.)
 * 10) Martin Luther King Jr.- "I Have A Dream"
 * 11) Abraham Lincoln- Ended slavery after the Civil War
 * 12) Rosa Parks- Arrested: she sat on the wrong side of the bus. She faught to end bus segregation
 * 13) Homer Pressy- Arrested as well: sat on the wrong side of the train. He faugth to end segregation on transportation
 * 14) Dred Scott- Was a slave, who seud for his freedom
 * 15) Sojourner Truth- Ran away and preached about the horror of slavery
 * 16) Harriet Tubman- escaped slavery and preached about it
 * 17) Malcolm X- Preached about segregation and civil rights