The document discusses key concepts related to state and federal government powers in the United States according to the Constitution. It also outlines important events and court cases related to desegregation efforts and the civil rights movement including Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 declaring segregation unconstitutional, the admission of the Little Rock Nine to a desegregated school in 1957, and James Meredith registering as the first black student at the University of Mississippi in 1962 despite resistance.
The document discusses key concepts related to state and federal government powers in the United States according to the Constitution. It also outlines important events and court cases related to desegregation efforts and the civil rights movement including Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 declaring segregation unconstitutional, the admission of the Little Rock Nine to a desegregated school in 1957, and James Meredith registering as the first black student at the University of Mississippi in 1962 despite resistance.
The document discusses key concepts related to state and federal government powers in the United States according to the Constitution. It also outlines important events and court cases related to desegregation efforts and the civil rights movement including Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 declaring segregation unconstitutional, the admission of the Little Rock Nine to a desegregated school in 1957, and James Meredith registering as the first black student at the University of Mississippi in 1962 despite resistance.
The document discusses key concepts related to state and federal government powers in the United States according to the Constitution. It also outlines important events and court cases related to desegregation efforts and the civil rights movement including Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 declaring segregation unconstitutional, the admission of the Little Rock Nine to a desegregated school in 1957, and James Meredith registering as the first black student at the University of Mississippi in 1962 despite resistance.
State Powers- The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, are reserved
to the States respectively, or to the people” Federal Powers- Powers that the Constitution explicitly grants the federal government. Segregation- Jim Crow laws that enforced strict separation of the races in the South Integration-incorporating different groups/races as equals into society Desegregation- the process of ending laws & practices that separate people of different races May, 1954- Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas Sept. 1957- Little Rock Nine Admitted May, 1958- First Black students graduate from Little Rock Central Sept, 1962- James Meredith registers at the Univ. of Mississippi