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Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was passed which granted slaves within the rebellious states to be free. -
Black Codes (White Rage)
Black codes were a series of laws passed to limit black people from doing relatively anything while still being considered “free”They had to sign labor contracts, banned from hunting and fishing, kids were apprenticed off, and failure to follow these laws resulted in being charged with vagrancy. -
The Sweet Family
Dr. Ossian Sweet and his family decide to move into a house in a white neighborhood. The Sweet family were not welcomed at all. -
Violence Ensues (White Rage)
The Sweet family were met with an angry, white mob outside of their house throwing rocks. Ossian Sweet and his friends retaliated by shooting at the mob. One white man was killed. The Sweets and their friends were the only people arrested. -
Brown Decision
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a case that led to the ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Bombing of Elementary School (White Rage)
Hattie Cotton Elementary School in Tennessee was bombed because the only black student, Patricia Watson, had started first grade there. -
“Little Rock Nine”
In Arkansas, 9 teenagers fought to integrate their high school. -
The “Lost Year”
The Arkansas governor shut down all Little Rock high schools. White students were able to go to private schools while black students went a full year with no schooling at all. -
The Black Vote
The right to vote was once again difficult for black people because southern states changed their rules on voting. Registering to vote was another advancement for black Americans that some white people saw as a threat. -
Herbert Lee
Herbert Lee was helping black people register to vote and was killed because of it. A witness to the murder, Louis Allen, was shot a few years later. -
Riots
In response to police brutality against people of color, riots began in many cities which only intensified white backlash. -
Nixon’s Code Words (White Rage)
While running for president, Richard Nixon made sure to use code words that demeaned black people without actually being outwardly racist. He made sure to relate crime and blackness closely together. -
Allan Bakke
Allan Bakke applied to medical school and did not get accepted. He argued that people of color with lower test scores than him were admitted. -
Bakke Decision (White Rage)
Allan Bakke sued the University of California and won the case based on the court’s agreement of “reverse discrimination”.