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Civil Rights Movement (1954-1970s)

I. Preconditions

A. Activist black population

· Veterans and college students

B. Great Migration

· WWII and black voting

C. Holocaust

D. Cold War

· Competition for Africa

E. Post-War affluence

· Baby Boomers

F. Mass media

· Television

G. Social sciences

H. Federal intervention

· Earl Warren’s Court

I. Southern economy

· Sharecropping and industry

II. Civil Rights Movement: South

A. Desegregation

1. Brown v. Board (1954)

2. Montgomery Bus Boycott

3. Martin Luther King Jr.

4. Birmingham, 1963

5. 1964 Civil Rights Act

B. Voting

1. 1965 Voting Rights Act

III. Race Relations: North

A. Race riots: Watts (1965)

B. Black power

IV. Achievements-Limitations

A. Politics

B. Education

C. Incomes

D. Inner cities