AS AM 2 Lecture 4: The Civil Rights Movement
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Ca(cid:374)t dis(cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)ate (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause you do(cid:374) t like so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e, or (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of their ra(cid:272)e. If you rent buy sell or lease property you cant discriminate on the basis of race. Thurgood marshall is being appointed to the us supreme court. Former white supremacists including lbj sworn him into the position. Argued that the restrictions against race should not be discriminated. After 5 years of showing good conduct can become us citizen. Robert and edward kennedy were key in passing the law. Most ppl in the us were already european. Asians been cut off from family for a long time. Mexico and southern america did not come into the us in great numbers. The idea was to keep the education with the european descent. Selecting skilled laborers - most leading universities outside the us were in europe. Asians and latinos became the majority of immigrants. Before 1970 us public law relied on racial categories in terms of citizenship segregation and immigration.