Turning Points in African American civil rights 1865-1992
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- Turning Points 1865-1992
- World War Two
- 700,000 AAs served in US armed forces
- Over 100,000 AAs were sent to Britain
- Irony of fighting Nazi Racism
- Double V Campaign
- Demand for Labour
- NAACP Membership increased by up to nine times
- Red Cross and separate blood types.
- Soldiers fought in segregated units
- Aviation School founded by Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama
- Race Riots in Detroit 1943
- Emancipation Proclamation
- A.braham Lincoln
- Racial equality could not be eventually reached if slavery was not abolished in the first place.
- However, it was not until the 13th Amendment was passed in 1865 that slavery was formally abolished
- Trio of Civil War Amendments- collectively more of a TP
- Supreme Court Case on Education
- Brown v. Board of Education
- 1954
- Reversal of judgement made in Plessy v. Ferguson case
- Brown v. Board of Education
- March on Washington
- 1963
- Birmingham Protests
- 1963
- George Wallace - America put to shame in the eyes of the world
- Late Civil Right Acts
- World War Two
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