DOC 3 Study Guide - Final Guide: High Tech, Teenage Pregnancy, Mattachine Society
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Naacp vote in: open in membership, white sympathizers joined. Members: church going people, middle class: new spirit of change after wwii: african americans came back from wwii and decided that they were not scared of white people. They were not happy with the situation at home. Brown v. board, integration of central high school in arkansas, montgomery bus. Activists were mostly college students, most of them integrated. Southerners had rigid ideology of their southern way of life the time of slavery was the. Boycott perfect era: southerners are more angry at the anglo who join the movement because they feel they are betraying the race. Strategy employed by civil rights activists: force the police to use high power to suppress innocent people to get attention from the media to promote their movement to the nation/world, fill up the jail. Nowhere to put them so they have to put them somewhere else.
