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What denied African Americans the right to vote in the 1950s?
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- poll taxes- grandfather clauses- unfair test- acts of intimidation
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What deprived African Americans of public facilities and decent education?
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"seperate but equal"
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What declared that the seperate but equal was actually unequal?
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Brown v board of education of topeka
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What had a large impact on the civil rights movement?
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The television (biggest impact)northern newspapers- new york times/boston globe
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Book Electronic Journalism?
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William Wood
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First great tv news story?
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Civil rights movement
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Who created nicknames for the broadcasting stations?
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Southerners- they disliked reporters because they could have a wide broadcast, even in their states where there newspapers were bias
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What was the first chapter in tv's epic coverage of the civil rights movement?
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Little rock- high school in arkansas
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What happened in 1957?
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- 9 black students enroll in little rock- central high school- turned away as they were trying to enter- blocked by arkansas national guardsmen - ordered by governor orval faubus- network cameras caught it all
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What girl had missed being escorted to school by police car? she went to school, was yelled at, and alone.
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Elizabeth eckford
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What did eisenhower do in response to central high school crisis? little rock
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After three weeks, placed arkansas national guardsmen under federal control- eisenhower ordered the guard to protect the nine black students
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Who were the first two african-americans to be admitted at the university of georgia?
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- hamilton homes- charlayne hunter
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Where was the university of georgia?
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Athens, georgia
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What did Charlayne later do?
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Became a public broadcasting service correspondent
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What did the tv broadcasts show about the university of georgia?
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Hunter had to live on campus- showed the acts of violence towards her
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