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. What was the primary purpose of the 14th Amendment during the Civil Rights Movement?

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

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Reconstruction — goal?

Rebuild South, establish civil rights

Reconstruction — goal?

Rebuild South, establish civil rights

Jim Crow — law?

Racial segregation laws in public spaces

14th Amendment — rights?

Citizenship and equal protection

NAACP — strategy?

Legal action, court cases, protests

Jim Crow laws — purpose?

Institutionalize racial segregation

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