Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement
Title: Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement
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Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement
Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement
Segregation was an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in every
sphere of life and to achieve supremacy over blacks. Segregation was often
called the Jim Crow system, after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who
was an old, crippled, black slave who embodied negative stereotypes of blacks.
Segregation became common in Southern states following the end of Reconstruction
in 1877. During Reconstruction, which followed the Civil …
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other minorities in the Democratic Party.
In early 1965 SCLC employed its direct-action techniques in a voting-rights
protest initiated by SNCC in Selma, Alabama. When protests at the local
courthouse were unsuccessful, protesters began a march to Montgomery, the state
capital. As the marchers were leaving Selma, mounted police beat and tear-gassed
them. Televised scenes of that violence, called Bloody Sunday.
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another history book-2001, IL.
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