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Albany- segregation, very low voter registration, violence against A.A. (sexual assaults at Albany State College), negative treatment of AA in local papers Full integration- buses, lunch counters, other public facilities (broad attack on every aspect of segregation in the city) Voter registration campaign Mobilized thousands of local citizens, NAACP, SNCC (Sherrod, Reagon, Jones- encourage and coordinate activism in the city) Martin Luther King, William J. Anderson selected as the leader Mass meetings, singing, praying, marches, petitions, boycotts, sit-ins, voter registration drives Laurie Pritchett- carefully studied the movement's strategy. Engaged in mass arrests but avoided public displays of violence/police brutality which would attract negative press. He avoided filling up jails by utilizing jails throughout the region. He arranged to have King's bail paid so to not allow King to be a magnet for unwanted attention. Some viewed the limited success of the Alban...

Notes In reviewing the conviction of a man charged with distributing provocative flyers to draftees of World War I, the Court asserted that, in certain contexts, words can create a "clear and present danger" that Congress may constitutionally prohibit. While the ruling has since been overturned, Schenck is still significant for creating the context-based balancing tests used in reviewing freedom of speech challenges. Background: Charles Schenck, a socialist, was arrested for distributing flyers to enlisted men during World War I. Schenck's flyers asserted the draft was a form of involuntary servitude prohibited by the 13th Amendment. Schenck was charged with violating the recently enacted Espionage Act. The government asserted that Schenck attempted to conspire to cause insubordination. Others convicted under this law: Rosenbergs Daniel Ellsberg Chelsea Manning Edward Snowden  The Court then argued that "the character of every act depends upon the cir...

Room 167: First Amendment-Notes : First Amendment: Rights contained in the First Amendment Values served by protecting the First Amendment Absolutist, Balancing and Categori...

Room 167: Room 167: First Amendment-Notes : Room 167: First Amendment-Notes : First Amendment: Rights contained in the First Amendment Values served by protecting the First Amendment ...

Room 167: Marbury v. Madison : Marbury v. Madison Jeopardy People *( 100 )President who attempted to preserve his philosophical legacy through a number of political ap...

Who: Irene Morgan, Supreme Court, NAACP, CORE, SCLC, SNCC, John Lewis, Diane Nash, Bull Connor, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, Governor John Patterson, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy What: Segregation on interstate buses in the south, Morgan v. Virginia, angry/violent resistance (Anniston- angry mob armed with clubs and bats, fire bombed the bus and brutally beat the passengers) When: Morgan v. Virginia 1946, Journey of Reconciliation 1947, Freedom Rides May, 1961, Anniston, Alabama May 14, 1961 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/rides/ Where: throughout the south, in particular the deep south, Anniston, Birmingham, Montgomery Alabama Why: Test the Constitutionality of segregation on interstate buses How: Trained in civil disobedience, informally tested the law- Journey of Reconciliation and later Freedom Rides

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Room 167: Civil Rights History Course (Unit III) : Vocabulary/Topics: Backlash Desegregation De facto De jure Equal Protection Clause Fourteenth Amendment Freedom of Assembly Grassro...

Room 167: March on Washington Notes (5 Ws) : What? Mass protest to raise awareness of issues and put pressure on Washington to do something significant about civil and economic rights ...

Room 167: The Constitution Infographic

Room 167: The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism: Cr... : The first government was not the Constitution, it was: List three flaws in our first government. What was the biggest accomplishment o...

Room 167: The Making of the American Constitution - Judy Wal...