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Demands for Civil Rights
Angela BrownChapter 27 Section 4
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The Struggle for Equality
• Truman privately held racial prejudice from growing up in South but realized as President must push for equality opportunity.
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Truman’s Actions
• 1946 Truman met with group of African American leaders.
• They ask for: support for a federal anti-lynching law, abolish the poll tax, establish a board to prevent discriminatory practices in Congress.
• Congress refused to address
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• Dec 1946 – Truman appointed a biracial committee on Civil Rights – group produced a report demanding actions on above concerns
• Recommended permanent Civil Rights commission be established
• Congress again failed to act.
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• 1948 Truman banned discriminatory hiring of fed. Employees – ended segregation and discrimination in armed forces
• Only with onset of Korean War in 1950 did armed forces make significant progress at ending segregation.
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Jackie Robinson • Major league baseball
had refused to allow African Americans to participate – played in Negro leagues.
• Mid 1940s Branch Rickey, gen. manager of Brooklyn Dodgers selected Jackie Robinson to be first African American to break the color line.
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Robinson
• Robinson earned college letters in football, basketball, baseball, and track at UCLA.
• Robinson was the only player in UCLA history to letter in four sports.
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• Had a record for standing up against racial injustice – undergone court martial in Army during WWII for refusing to set in back of non-segregated post bus – was cleared
• Rickey role played with Robinson what he might endure – “I want a player with guts to fight back.”
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• 1947 joined Dodgers as first African American player in major leagues.
• Despite instances of prejudice he behaved with dignity and was named Rookie of the Year.
• 1949 voted league most valuable player.
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Racism on Gridiron • 1946 Penn State vs. University of
Miami – canceled due to two African American players on Penn State team.
• President of Miami U stated hoped to avoid any “unfortunate incidents”.
• Penn State Dean stated they were part of the team and no conditions would be put on them.
• Other schools made arrangements such as… African Americans would play them at home but not away.
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Brown vs Board of Education • NAACP tried to overturn 1896
Plessy v. Ferguson decision “Separate but Equal”.
• 1951 Oliver Brown sued the Topeka Kansas Board of Education to allow daughter attend white school – she walked to on way to bus.
• Lawyer Thurgood Marshall argued on behalf of Brown against segregation.
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Thurgood Marshall
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• May 1954 – Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka declared unanimously that “separate facilities are inherently unequal”.
• Separate but equal no longer permissible in public schools – Eisenhower disagreed.
• 1967 President Johnson appointed Marshall Supreme Court’s first African American associate Justice.
• Liberal presence on court until retirement in 1991.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott • 1955 Rosa Parks refused bus
drivers order to give up seat in mixed, middle section of the bus to a white man.
• Sec of Montgomery NAACP for 12 years – arrested and ordered to stand trial for violating segregation laws.
• Civil rights leaders met and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Rosa Parks
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Boycott
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• African Americans refused to use the bus system until the company agreed to change segregation policy.
• Martin Luther King Jr. became spokesperson for protest movement (26 year old minister where protest meeting took place).
• 50,000 African Americans in Montgomery walked, biked, car pooled for a year – bus company lost money but would not change its policies.
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• Supreme Court finally ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.
• Produced new generation of African American leaders – and nonviolent protest as a means of achieving equality for minority groups.
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Resistance in Little Rock
• 1957 Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
• Governor Orval Faubus declared he could not keep order if forced to integrate – bring races together.
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Central High School
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• Posted Arkansas National Guard troops at school – nine African American students had tried to enroll.
• Eisenhower placed National Guard under federal command – paratroopers and soldiers on guard to protect the nine students.
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Other Voices of Protest
• Mexican American worked for rights.
• Texas funeral home refused to bury Felix Longoria, Mexican American War Hero – protest led to soldiers burial in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C.
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• Native Americans – 1953 governor sought to eliminate reservations = “termination”
• Goal to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream.
• Resistance = government discarded termination policy
• Poverty, discrimination, and little political representation remained a problem.