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How did the NAACP fight segregation

Some ways that the NAACP fought segregation was:

  • By fighting inequality in public schools
  • By proving that schools were not equal
  • By bringing lawsuits
How did Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson differ
  • -Robinson's stand made him more popular than Robeson
  • -Robeson took a more radical approach to equality than Robinson
  • -Robeson spoke well of the Soviet Union, Robinson did not
  • -Robinson's stand made him more popular than Robeson
What did the Supreme Court order US schools to do in 1954

Stop segregation because it was unconstitutional. - - - A P E X

How did Earl Warren stand on Brown v Board of Education

Earl Warren, the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court during this case, agreed with the civil rights attorneys in the sense that the idea of "separate but equal" is unconstitutional.

Why did many Southern Democrats split from the party

They didn't support freedom for enslaved African Americans

Which leader briefly joined the Communist Party

Bayard Rustin did

What was the advantage to the NAACP legal team in obtaining desegregated law schools

States were unlikely to want to spend money to make black schools equal.

What was an argument about segregation made by Thurgood Marshall before the Supreme Court

One argument about segregation made by Thurgood Marshall before the Supreme Court was that African American students suffered damage from being treated differently.

How did Eisenhower respond to southern resistance to desegregate schools

He ordered in the 101st Airborne Division

Why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt agree to desegregate the defense industry

He feared a march on Washington by African Americans would be bad for the war effort.

What happened to the man who shot Lamar Smith in public

He was never charged with the crime.

NAACP lawyers began their desegregation efforts by focusing on

law schools

A. Philip Randolph argued that requiring African Americans to fight for democracy in other countries was unfair because

They were denied rights in their own country

What did The Brown V. Board of Education decision ended public school segregation on the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment which says that all citizens deserve under the law

equal protection

Which of these was not a principle of liberalism during the cold war

communism

apex

Which of these Fair Deal reforms did not happen

a national health insurance program

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