https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t Made with whimsy for 12A en-us 2020-01-07 09:28:17 UTC 2025-12-08 13:23:34 UTC hello@padlet.com mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290138 2020-01-07 09:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290138 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290172 2020-01-07 09:30:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290172 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290196 2020-01-07 09:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290196 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290222 2020-01-07 09:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290222 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290234 2020-01-07 09:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290234 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290254 2020-01-07 09:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290254 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290267 2020-01-07 09:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428290267 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428857734 The legality of segregation in schools had been questioned by lawyers and parents since the early 1950s. By 1952, these cases had reached the Supreme Court.]]> 2020-01-08 11:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428857734 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428858294 Brown V. Board of Education ruled in 1952 that "Separate but equal" had no place in modern America - Justice Warren agreed that segregated education negatively impacted black lives. This was a significant step forward ]]> 2020-01-08 11:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428858294 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428858722 As early as 1938, the Supreme Court ordered the state of Missouri to guarantee its black residents equal educational provisions.]]> 2020-01-08 11:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428858722 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428858856 By 1956 9 states had desegregated - 300,000 black students had been enrolled in previously segregated institutions ( however 2.4m still remained in segregated education)]]> 2020-01-08 11:44:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428858856 bucketoftrash https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428859121 Even before the Supreme Court's decision to desegregate schools, the courts had set a pattern of desegregation in their decisions]]> 2020-01-08 11:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428859121 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428859333 Required federal guarantees for voting rights of blacks

Justice Department given powers to sue states and local governments 

Southern democrat, Lyndon B Johnson helped Eisenhower get the first CRA through Congress. ]]> 2020-01-08 11:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428859333 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428859887 Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and cities in Delaware and West Virginia all desegregated their public schools by September 1954.]]> 2020-01-08 11:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428859887 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428859992 After 1956, white reaction began to "mushroom" - politically, white supremacy parties increased their electoral share in the former 11 confederate states - e.g. 29.5% of S. Carolina voted for the States Rights Party ]]> 2020-01-08 11:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428859992 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428860462 Improvements in school desegregation came about between 1953-55, with 723 school districts abiding by the new Brown v. Board Education of Topeka, Kansas case by 1956.]]> 2020-01-08 11:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428860462 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428860700 [Marable Chapter]]]> 2020-01-08 11:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428860700 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428861202 1950s Middle Class movements not echoing that of the African Americans - this increased difference in middle class whites and blacks encouraged  "a significant outpouring of energy, talent and hope for the future"]]> 2020-01-08 11:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428861202 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428861584 The rising popularity of black musicians and Harlem nightclubs allowed for the Jazz of the 1950s and 1960s to popularise the plight of black people - famous names such as Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk and Charlie Parker raised awareness of African American status to whites and non whites due to their almost universal appeal ]]> 2020-01-08 11:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428861584 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862302 2020-01-08 11:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862302 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862424 2020-01-08 11:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862424 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862512 2020-01-08 11:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862512 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862700 http://www.african-american-civil-rights.org/civil-rights-act-of-1957/]]> 2020-01-08 11:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862700 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862849 As the desegregation movement became more popular, white supremacists and terrorists began using more violent measures. For example, in December 1951, NAACP leader Harry T. Moore was murdered, but this wasn't investigated by the federal government.]]> 2020-01-08 12:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862849 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862889 "Toward the end of the 1950s, the image of Africa as a cultural and political entity began to reassert its impact on African Americans" Marable ]]> 2020-01-08 12:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428862889 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428863199 Decolonisation and increased viability of emerging African democracies like Ghana & Nkrumah's Convention People's Party inspired political thought in the US]]> 2020-01-08 12:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428863199 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428863457 During the Second World War, black musicians - who played majority jazz instruments like the saxophone, trumpet and piano - were making powerful strides aspects of popular culture. Charlie Parker would later become a revered musician before his death at age 35. In response to some of his work, established critics were "at a loss for words". ]]> 2020-01-08 12:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428863457 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428863616 Egypt had successfully rebuked imperialist efforts in the Suez Crisis - it seemed that white Western dominance was on the decline ]]> 2020-01-08 12:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428863616 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428864028 2020-01-08 12:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428864028 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428864090 1950 - 1960 African Americans represented 6.7 m workers in the US economy (increased by 1.2 in the decade)]]> 2020-01-08 12:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428864090 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428864299 34% of African Americans still worked in the service industry thoughout the US]]> 2020-01-08 12:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428864299 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428864399 Median income of African Americans was $4344 - the white median was $7643! ]]> 2020-01-08 12:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428864399 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428864779 1/2 of white families earned between 7000 - 15000 annually

Just over a 1/5 of non whites earned this ]]> 2020-01-08 12:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428864779 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428866627 2020-01-08 12:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428866627 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428866745 2020-01-08 12:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/428866745 mks3 https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/438764556 2020-01-31 14:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mks3/4xm7l31kh9t/wish/438764556