Oriental problem 1920

  • Japanese are taking over land in California
  • 80 to 90% of vegetable and berry crop from Japanese farmers
  • 80% of tomatoes, 80% of spinach
  • Japanese sending kids to school sometimes flipping the minority
  • Californians have been calm about this and not violent
  • Californians need to maintain the state for its own people
  • Japanese work very hard and they were angry

Brown versus the Board of Education 1954

  • NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall argues separate but equal schools and other institutions are unconstitutional
  • Lyndon Johnson put him on the Supreme Court in 1967
  • 17 states allowed segregation in the schools
  • for others made the school board decide
  • parents were using their kids to for segregation
  • bullying tormenting yelling at them beating them up
  • May 17, 1954 unanimous in favor of Brown

introduced to Martin Luther King Junior

Montgomery bus boycott

video notes

Emmett Till 17 years old

  • went to pick cotton for fun

Little Rock 1957 500 documented lynchings in Mississippi

he said bye baby to a white woman

Gov. George Wallace of Alabama

four days later until the body was found in money River

blacks sat at the bridge table in court room

trial took five days had witnessed was uncle Mose Rake

Montgomery bus boycott

  • three months after Emmett Till
  • Martin Luther King Junior 26 years old new preacher leader of the boycott
  • two thirds of bus riders were black after the boycott almost 0 blacks rode the bus
  • bombs were thrown at the boycott leaders
  • Gov. George Wallace of Alabama
  • Road black taxis carpools and walked
  • 11 months Supreme Court ruled bus system was unconstitutional
 

Little Rock 1957

  • the South refused to allow mixed schools
  • nine black teens went to the White school
  • Little Rock Gov. did not want mixed people
  • so he could get more votes 601 students graduate one black
  • 8/9 walked together but turned away by National Guard parents and a minister walk with them
  • Little Rock Gov. sends National Guard to only let whites in
  • Midsummer iSehoir met Gov. and made him remove the National Guard
  • people rioted when the blacks got into the school
  • one policeman said Lynch one kid will draw straws
  • riot was going to kill the kids then they ran off in blue Ford cars
  • 104 division of paratroopers to protect kids
  • Mrs. Bates houses started convoy to the school
  • every black had one troop that followed them
  • troop cant be in the ladies bathroom or the gym
  • one girl has scars from the gym class
  • Mini Jym 5 foot 10 pumped chili on boys 5 foot five head
  • cards handed out after many suspended one down eight to go
  • 2468 we don’t want to integrate

the sit-ins 1960

  • Nashville Tennessee has four black universities February 1 for black students sat at a white counter
  • February 27 gang of tough kids gathered
  • students stayed not violent even when people were beating them
  • 33 days in jail for sitting in the white section
  • the blacks boycotted all items
  • dynamite thrown at black attorneys house
  • 140 windows broken
  • blacks gathered at City Hall to get Mayor to integrate city
  • Mayor said it’s not morally right to segregate the city
  • three weeks after the announcement blacks could eat
  • student nonviolent committees formed
  • Martin Luther King southern Christian leader conference
  • police warned the blacks been arrested blacks for disorderly conduct