History : USA

• In 1950's How where black Americans treated and where?


  second-class citizens and they faces segregation, discrimination

  south
• In the 1950's what main organisations where campainged to improve black civil rights?

  NAACP and CORE
• What law segregated black and white Americans?

  jim crow
• NAACP ( national association for the advancement of coloured people )

  • set up in 1909
  • they fought for civil rights using the legal system and the courts
  • defended black people who where unfairly convicted
• CORE ( congress of racial equality)

  • set up in 1942
  • they were smaller than NAACP
  • they used non-violent direct action
• When was the Brown v Topeka


  1954
• short term significance of brown v topeka

  • members of ku klux klan increased
  • many southern states found a away around the law
  • some good black schools where shut down
  • many black students and teachers faces threats
• Long term significance of brown v topeka

  • awareness of civil rights issues
  • white Americans moved out a black areas to avoid desegregation
• When did the supreme court ruled that segregated eduction was unconstitutional?

  may 1954
• When did the 2nd court ruling state that desegregation in schools will happen?

  may 1955