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Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. In subsequent years, Congress expanded the act and also passed additional legislation aimed at bringing equality to African Americans, such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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April 6, 1931: Scottsboro Boy Young Men 

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April 6, 1931: Scottsboro Boy Young Men 

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Nine black teenagers accused in Alabama of raping two White American women on a train in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident dealt with racism and the right to a fair trial . The cases included a lynch mob before the suspects had been indicted, all white juries , rushed trials, and disruptive mobs. It is frequently cited as an example of a miscarriage of justice in the United States legal system .

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August 8, 1925: Ku Klux Klan March on Washington 

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August 8, 1925: Ku Klux Klan March on Washington 

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Ku Klux Klan felt it was being put on the defensive in America. After the uproar of the Scopes trial, the security of fundamentalism was feeling a little shaky. Even women could vote. The great waves of immigrant Jews and Greeks and Italians were steadily becoming assimilated. Black men were going to college! America was in danger of becoming a pluralistic society.

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dicated that the federal government would officially tolerate the “separate but equal” doctrine, was eventually used to justify segregating all public facilities, including railroad cars, restaurants, hospitals, and schools.

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Forbidding discrimination in hotels, trains, and other public spaces, was unconstitutional and not authorized by the 13th or 14th Amendments of the Constitution.

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1882. The Rise of American Domestic Terrorism.

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1882. The Rise of American Domestic Terrorism.

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To terrify, to humiliate, to establish dominance . Lynching , the Red Shirts and the KKK s acts are forms of domestic terrorists, and slavery and racially based violence was a slow moving holocaust. Culture of vigilantism , mob rule, mob mentality. It was exceedingly rare for lynchings to be done by one or two people. Lynchers had the confidence to know that law enforcement would look the other way, and in fact often assisted.

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Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-black racism. Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that whites were the Chosen people, blacks were cursed to be servants, and God supported racial segregation.

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jim crow era origins 1878-1965 - Google Search

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The divisive politics of Reconstruction turned on the status the former slaves would assume in the reunited nation.

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Constitution declared that Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.