HIST 1378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Literacy Test, James Chaney, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
4 Nov 2020
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Racism, law, violence, the economy through slavery and segregation to blm. African americans couldn"t buy homes in certain neighborhoods, accused of crimes they didn"t do (wreck less eyeballing); legal conditions which makes racism powerful and oppressive. Because of the baby boom there was a lot of schools being built. American schools didn"t have the same books, old buildings, etc: a lot of african american families began to sue, and the supreme court consolidated several cases into brown v. board, sc unanimously overturned plessy v. ferguson. Separate is inherently unequal: huge blow to apartheid, education is a key component of social mobility, when sc said you have to let african american kids in, there was no timeline set. They had to do it with all deliberate speed people took their time/delayed. There are a couple different ways that the civil rights movement operates: courts and legislatures (like brown v. board, direct action in the streets (bus boycott)
