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Asia Jackson
Asia Jackson is an American actress and model. She has been featured in the television series such as Speechless, and Alone Together.
Early life
based in Los Angeles, CA. She is of African-American and Filipino descent. An Air Force brat, Asia moved from California to Mississippi when she was just two weeks old. Since then, she'd moved nine times around the world by the time she was thirteen. She spent two years of her elementary studies in Tokyo, Japan as well as Baguio City, Philippines. She discovered her passion for modeling and acting while attending college for computer science.[1]
Sydney Viengluang
Katy O'Brien
The Civil Rights Movement and Native Americans
The Civil Rights Movement was very significant for the rights of Native Americans and other people of color. Native Americans faced racism and prejudice for hundreds of years, and this increased after the American Civil War. Native Americans like African Americans were subjected to the Jim Crow Laws and segregation especially in the Deep South especially after they were made citizens through the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. As a body of law, Jim Crow institutionalized economic, educational, and social disadvantages for Native Americans, and other people of color living in the south.[2][3][4] Native American identity was especially targeted by a system that only wanted to recognize white or colored, and the government began to question the legitimacy of some tribes because they had intermarried with African Americans.[2][3] Native Americans were also discriminated and discouraged from voting in the southern and western states.[4]
In the south segregation was a major problem for Native Americans seeking education, but the NAACP's legal strategy would later change this.[5] Movements such as Brown v. Board of Education was a major victory for the Civil Rights Movement headed by the NAACP, and inspired Native Americans to start participating in the Civil Rights Movement.[6][7] Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began assisting Native Americans in the south in the late 1950s after they reached out to him.[7] At that time the remaining Creek in Alabama were trying to completely desegregate schools in their area. The South had so many seemingly outlandish racial problems: In this case, light-complexioned Native children were allowed to ride school buses to previously all white schools, while dark-skinned Native children from the same band were barred from riding the same buses.[7] Tribal leaders, upon hearing of King's desegregation campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, contacted him for assistance. He promptly responded and through his intervention the problem was quickly resolved.[7] Dr. King would later make trips to Arizona visiting Native Americans on reservations, and in churches encouraging them to be involved in the Civil Rights Movement.[8]
- ^ Escobar, Allyson (May 31, 2017). "Actress Asia Jackson Wants to Take On 'Colorism,' Redefine Filipino Beauty". NBC. NBC. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ a b Perdue, Theda (October 28, 2011). "Legacy of Jim Crow for Southern Native Americans". C-SPAN. C-SPAN. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- ^ a b Lowery, Malinda Maynor (January 1, 2010). "Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation". Univ of North Carolina Press. pp. 0–339. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- ^ a b Wolfley, Jeanette (1990). "Jim Crow, Indian Style: The Disenfranchisement of Native Americans" (PDF). Indian Law Review. 16: 167–202. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- ^ Cottrol, Robert J.; Leland B. Ware (8 August 2014). "NAACP v. Jim Crow". American Federation of Teachers. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
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- ^ a b c d Bender, Albert (February 13, 2014). "Dr. King spoke out against the genocide of Native Americans". People's World. People's World. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ Leighton, David (Apr 2, 2017). "Street Smarts: MLK Jr. visited 'Papago' reservation near Tucson, was fascinated". The Arizona Daily Star. The Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 26 November 2018.