Brown II (1 magg 1955 anni – 1 ottob 1956 anni)

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Another Supreme Court decision, known as Brown II, in May 1955 failed to set a timetable for the implementation of school desegregation, thus encouraging southern white supremacists to step up the region's massive resistance. In the following months White Citizens’ Councils spread quickly across the South and boasted a membership of almost a quarter of a million by 1956. Southern politicians also vowed to defend white supremacy. In March 1956 ninety-six U.S.congressmen from the region signed a “Southern Manifesto,” in which they expressed their determination to uphold JimCrow. Meanwhile southern authorities attempted to destroy the NAACP, again charging that it was linked to Communism. Several states banned the organization, which cost the NAACP almost fifty thousand southern members. Segregationists also used violence to stop the black freedom movement. Killings such as the murder of the NAACP activist George W. Lee and the lynching of the black teenager Emmett Till in 1955 frightened many but also inspired others to become involved in
the struggle.

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