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Julie KIMMOUN

Created on March 21, 2024

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What happened in America during segregation time ?

Segregation Timeline

1863

The Emancipation Proclamation and the Battle of Gettysburg

1808

1929-1939

1896

Act prohibiting slave importation

The Great Depression

Plessy V. Fergusson

1896-1965

1954-1968

1861-1865

1865-1877

Jim Crow laws

Civil rights movement

Secession War

The Rectonstruction era

What did the civil rights movement change for the better ?

Civil rights movement

1964

The Civil Rights Act

1960

First Black Child to go to an all-white school

The Great Depression
  • Worst economic crisis in history
  • Affected the entire world
Consequences :
  • slowing consumer demand
  • mounting consumer debt,
  • decreased industrial production
  • Crash of the U.S. stock market

Ban of the slave trade

March 3, 1807 → January 1, 1808 : as early as possible

  • President Thomas Jefferson
→ Since the 1770s
  • Importation of slave : federal crime
→ American ships since 1704
  • The Domestic slave trade persisted
→ increased in importance→ smuggling of slave

Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 very limited/complicated part of the great documents of human freedom

The battle of Gettysburg

  • July 1, 1863 - July 3, 1863
  • Robert E. Lee and George Meade
  • turned the course of the Civil War

Civil rights movement

A social movement

Goal : abolish legalized segregation. → show unfair Jim Crow Laws Nonviolent mass protests and civil desobedience → Montgomery Bus Boycott - +1 year → March from Selma to Montgomery - 87km

As a result :

  • The Civil rights Act - 1964
  • Black people accepted in society - 1960

Jim Crow laws
  • Enforced from 1896 to 1965
  • Legalization of segregation

18 may 1896

PLESSY V. FERGUSSON

  • a US Supreme Court landmark
  • Jim Crow Laws -> did not violate the US Constitution
  • doctriine : "separate but equal"
Reconstruction era
  • 1865-1877
  • Rebuilding after the Civil War, reshape the post-slavery nation
  • Social progress for African American rights : end of slavery, grant of citizenship
  • Challenges: White resistance, economic chaos, political corruption
Secession War

Causes : The Problem of slavery The problem of states rights The fighting : The confederate army attacked Sumter Fort General Lee surrendered to General Grant. 620.000 people had been killed

The civil rights act

  • Signed by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964
  • Prohibited discrimination in public
  • Provided for the integration of schools
  • Made employment discrimination illegal
It was the most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction