HIST 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Earl Warren, De Jure, De Facto
6 Mar 2017
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Civil rights revolution: eventually touches off other rights revolutions, early 1950s to mid 1970s-the civil rights revolution, 10 years in the middle, knows as civil rights movement-characterized by heavy protests. Jim crow: southern phenomena, hellbent on denying freedmen, negroes, blacks, etc. any kind of citizenship rights, 13th and 14th amendments had been passed during reconstruction to give black men full citizenship rights. Women too, minus voting rights: de jure segregation. Jim crow becomes the norm: plessy v. ferguson (1896), ruled that blacks were entitled to same things, but could be separate. Not as repressive, but still ended up with race riots, etc: president"s commission on civil rights, executive order #9808, in 1946. Federal effort to end lynching: dismantling of segregation in residential areas. School desegregation: gov"t aid to education, employment opportunities, naacp, oldest organization for fighting racism, founded 1909, legislative gradualism-carefully disassemble de jure segregation to the point where it couldn"t be put back together.
