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1
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What happened under Abraham Lincoln?

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  • Emancipation Proclamation
2
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What happened under Andrew Johnson?

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  • Reconstruction
3
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What happened under Ulysses Grant?

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  • Failure of reconstruction
4
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What happened under Grover Cleveland?

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  • Haymarket Affair
  • Pullman Strike - early strike action against president and govt.
  • Plessy vs Ferguson - segregation legal
5
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What happened under Teddy Roosevelt?

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  • He met with Booker T, showed willingness to help AAs but did nothing about it
6
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What happened under Woodrow Wilson?

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  • NWLB

- He had racist tendencies

7
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What happened under Calvin Coolidge?

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  • Golden Age
  • Sleeping Car Porters
  • Welfare Capitalism
8
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What happened under FDR?

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  • New Deal

- Not publicly supportive of African American legislation

9
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What happened under Harry Truman?

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  • To Secure These Rights
10
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What happened under Eisenhower?

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  • Little Rock - fed. intervention to protect AAs

- Brown vs Board

11
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What happened under JFK?

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  • Proposed Civil Rights Bill but not passed
12
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What happened under LBJ?

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  • Passed Civil Rights Act 1964

- Passed Voting Rights Act 1965

13
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What happened under Richard Nixon?

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  • Affirmative action
  • ‘Hand up not hand out’
  • Education programmes
14
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What happened under Reagan?

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  • PATCO strike

- Block of MLK Day

15
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What happened under George Bush Sr?

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  • Rodney King Riots

- Return of burial grounds to NAs