Civil Rights Movement and Legacy

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Civil Rights Movement Revision Sheet

1. 📌 Essentials

  • Reconstruction aimed to rebuild the South and establish civil rights but failed to prevent poverty and racial discrimination.
  • 14th Amendment: grants citizenship and equal protection; 15th Amendment: prohibits voting denial based on race.
  • Jim Crow laws institutionalized racial segregation, justified by Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" doctrine.
  • Disenanchisement tools: poll taxes, literacy tests, felony disenfranchisement laws.
  • Key leaders: Frederick Douglass (abolitionist), Booker T. Washington (vocational training, segregation), W.E.B. Du Bois (immediate civil rights, NAACP).
  • NAACP (founded 1909): used legal strategies, court cases, protests to challenge segregation.
  • Major milestones: Brown v. Board (1954), Civil Rights Acts (1957, 1964), Voting Rights Act (1965), Fair Housing Act (1968).
  • rights strategies: sit-ins, marches, Freedom Rides, legal challenges, grassroots activism.
  • The “New Negro” movement (1920s): cultural pride, racial self-expression.
  • Key court case: Brown v. Board of Education declared segregation unconstitutional.

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1. What was the primary goal of Reconstruction after the Civil War?

2. Which Supreme Court case legalized racial segregation under the doctrine of 'separate but equal'?

3. What was a key strategy used by the NAACP in the fight against segregation?

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Reconstruction — goal?

Rebuild South, establish civil rights

Jim Crow — law?

Racial segregation laws in public spaces

NAACP — strategy?

Legal action, court cases, protests

Reconstruction — goal?

Rebuild South, establish civil rights

14th Amendment — rights?

Citizenship and equal protection

Jim Crow laws — purpose?

Institutionalize racial segregation

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