Early Civil Rights Breakthroughs:
Committee on Civil Rights, 1946
To Secure These Rights
Desegregation of U.S. Armed Forces, 1948
Jackie Robinson & professional baseball
Brooklyn Dodgers
Desegregated the Major Leagues
Negro Leagues
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Ruling
Jim Crow segregation
“with all deliberate speed”
Mendez v. Westminster School Districts, 1947
Protection under the 14th Amendment
Ruling
Federal Judge Paul McCormik
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Salvatierra v. Del Rio ISD, 1930
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD, 1948
Texas Southern University, 1947
Texas State University for Negroes
HISD & Houston College for Negroes, 1935
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Thurgood Marshall School of Law, 1976
Heman Marion Sweatt
Separate but equal doctrine
Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957
Orval Faubus
Eisenhower & U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division
White Resistance:
White Citizen’s Council
Ku Klux Klan
Emmett Till, 1955
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
Rosa Parks
White bus owners
Supreme Court, 1956
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 1957
Founders:
Martin Luther King
Bayard Rustin
Ella Baker
Stanley Levison
Ralph Abernathy
Philosophy of peaceful integration & nonviolence
Ghandi
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