DOC 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: First Amendment To The United States Constitution, Grandfather Clause, Student Activism
30 Jan 2017
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Vr history: national awareness was needed by jfk to pursue civil rights legislation on moral grounds. Continued by johnson when jfk was assassinated. Choosing a path of resistance within a system. Try to vote: rise/fall of jim crow interactive website. State level: prejudiced legislature against african americans and poor white americans. Polling places were systematically placed in certain neighborhoods to discourage voting from certain minority groups. Lose a day"s worth of pay or get fired. Following success of montgomery bus boycott (1956) Southern ministers created sclc to support local protesters. Mlk: we need to work together (with white americans) to enforce the law. Founded at shaw university in raleigh, north carolina. Included leaders from the woolworth lunch counter sit-ins. Campaign to expand black voting in the south. Make claims against literacy tests and how they are unjust. Three students kidnapped and murdered by kkk. Investigation was unjust and no one was held accountable.
