Timeline presenting some events of the sixties linked with segregation in the south of U.S.
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Timeline presenting some events of the sixties linked with segregation in the south of U.S.
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Freedom rides, the freedom riders were demonstrating to end segregation in buses. | James Meredith is the first African-American student in the University of Mississipi. He was victim of violence, that’s why kennedy ordered 10 000 U.S. military policde to restaure order and protect james. | March on Washington, 250 000 people gathered to support civil and economic right for the African-Americans. Martin Luther King made his famous speech « I have a dream » during this event. | The civil right Act, it abolished the Jim Crow Laws and prohibited segregation in public places and discrimination. | James Meredith ‘s march against fear, he began a solo 220 mile march to focus on racism in the South of U.S. and to encorage voter registration. On the second day of his march he was shot, then 15 000 marchers joined his cause. | |
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Justification : I choose the freedom rides because it’s a good example of the non-violent resistance and because these rides helped to alert public opinion because the police wasn’t protecting the demonstators, the policement were protecting the ones who attacked the the demonstrators, the Ku Klux Klan for example. Furthermore the freedom rides and the entrance of James Meredith in a university of mississipi show that people tried to supress segregation little by little (in the transports, in the schools…). Also the fact that an African-American came to a University of Mississipi is a big step in the history of black Americans because Mississipi was one of the most racist state in U.S.A. Then I couldn’t forget the march on Washington, indeed it’s one of the most important political gathering in the history of humanity. It’s also a very symbolic event, it took place a century after the end of slavery in front of the lincoln memorial, lincoln being the one who abolished slavery. I put the civil right act in that timeline because it was influenced by the march on washington and because the fact that the law has finally been changed was a big victory for the civil rights movement. Then the march against fear shows that even if the law had been changed people was still racist, they shot James Meredith while he was just walking, also black and white people weren’t totally equal, a lot of them were excluded from politics because of a so-called non-discriminatory test. So this march point the fact that desegregation didn’t happened overnight. Even today, black people are still victims of inequalities in U.S.A.
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