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Civil rights final
| Straw-party sales | A common way to break a restrictive covenant; a white party would buy the home and then sell or transfer the property to a black buyer |
| George L. Vaughn | The defense attorney on the Shelly case. He had a 45-year-long career and had fought 6 RC cases prior. Realtors wanted him because of his experience and they also wanted him to defend their business practices. |
| What does Shelly show us about the evolution of litigation strategy? | Modern litigation is messy! In the modern period, cases are much more influenced by a variety of factors from the community |
| Ella Baker | Her clear activism began in 1940 as a field officer for the NAACP, during this time she traveled to Greenboro and inspired an NAACP youth chapter which then later inspires the sit-in. Greenboro Sit-ins |
| Greenboro Sit-ins | 4 young freshmen at the local black college went into a store and established patronage, sat at the all-white lunch counter, asked for equal service, and remained. They returned each day with more people and did the same thing. |
| SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) | church based/MLK leadership; non-violent; at the forefront of the movement in the MEDIA's narrative |
| Planation mentality | black workers denounced racial practices that placed them in menial service jobs which essentially made them permanent servants; activists critiqued people that were submissive and internalized the planter mentality; feminized those that accommodate |
| Planation mentality | white racists who insisted on subservience and the denial of manhood (paternalism) |
| The Negro in American Life | A pamphlet distributed in US emabassies around the globe (US propaganda); argues the ruling shows democracy is superior because US constitution makes racial progress inevitable + premoted gradualism |
| Brown v. Board of Education II (1955) | he court said they had to balance the interests of the plaintiff and "public" interests; Schools were not yet required to desegregate and the plaintiffs remained at their schools- championed gradualism- NO REMEDY |
| Shelly v. Kraemer (1948) ruling | SCOTUS ruled that RCs were a breach of the 14th amendment's equal protection clause |
| SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) | grass-roots movement founded in 1960 by young civil rights activists and Ella Baker |
| I am a man | the slogan used in the Memphis sanitation strike and beyond; interaction of urban and rural strategies bec. great migration; rural people had helped reshape concepts in urban areas; conversation about labor and race becomes a conversation about gender |
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