The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition
Virginia slaveowner who drafted the Declaration of Independence, called the institution of slavery an ‘abominable crime.’ But he ...
The Problem 5 work. Roger Taney, a slaveholding chief justice, tried to end the debate over slavery. In the Dred Scottdecision o ...
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1 Jim Crow South Thirteenth Amendment: This 1865 constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States. Fourteenth Ame ...
Poll Tax: A tax levied by southern states to dis- franchise blacks and poor whites. Grandfather Clause: A legal provision in sou ...
Jim Crow South 11 The Birth of a Nation: A 1915 silent film that por- trayed newly freed blacks as buffoons and rapists and ther ...
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2 Origins of the Movement Washington, Booker T. (1856–1915): Ex-slave who founded Tuskegee Institute to promote his belief that ...
White, Walter (1893– 1955): NAACP executive secretary who fought against lynching. Desegregation: The elimination of laws and cu ...
Origins of the Movement 17 Buy Black Campaign: The Depression-era strategy for blacks to keep their money within the black commu ...
Fair Employment Practice Committee: Under pres- sure from A. Philip Randolph, president Franklin D. Roosevelt established this t ...
Origins of the Movement 19 Commission on Interra- cial Cooperation: Formed after World War I, this Atlanta-based organiza- tion ...
Robinson, Jackie(1919– 72): Broke baseball’s color bar in 1947, open- ing the door to integrat- ing other sports. United Auto Wo ...
Origins of the Movement 21 number of black voters increased to one million, a fourfold increase in a decade. Other developments ...
3 The Brown Decision Marshall, Thurgood (1908–93): NAACP chief counsel nicknamed ‘Mr Civil Rights’ for his many legal victories ...
The BrownDecision 23 Brownv.Board of Educa- tion(1954): Crucial Sup- reme Court decision that invalidated ‘separate- but-equal’ ...
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