American History, 1877 to present
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civil_rights_p._1.pptxCivil Rights Movement(s)
1940s-1970s
Legal Strategies
De jure and de facto
NAACP—
Transportation: Morgan vs. Virginia, 1946
Education: Oliver Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954
First day of desegregation, Virginia, 1954
Little Rock
Grassroots Strategies
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1957
CORE/Freedom Rides, 1961
Birmingham, 1963
March on Washington, 1963
Results
Civil Rights Act, 1964
24th Amendment, 1964
Voting Rights Act, 1965
End of legalized segregation, right to vote reinstated
Racial liberalism
Film: Freedom Riders
According to the film, what role did young people play in the fight to end segregation?
Do you think the civil rights struggle would have been effective without them?
Rosa Parks, 1955
Freedom Rides, 1961
Freedom Riders Attacked, Alabama, 1961
Birmingham, 1963
March on Washington, 1963
March on Washington, 1963
