Civil Rights 1940-1960

 1. Consider African Americans’ struggles for civil rights from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. What were the main achievements of those struggles, and what obstacles did civil rights activists have to overcome? What general transformations in American life in this period, and what particular protest strategies, were most conducive to achieving those gains? Please only use sources from Eric Foner′s ″Give Me Liberty″ Textbook.