Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

World War II

          Double V

End of segregation of armed services

          Dixiecrats

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954

          NAACP

          Thurgood Marshall

          Earl Warren – “inherently unequal”

          Brown II – “with all deliberate speed”

Massive resistance

          White citizens councils

          Segregation academies

Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas

          Orval Faubus

          Dwight Eisenhower

Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955

          Rosa Parks

          Martin Luther King, Jr.

          Passive resistance

          Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Tenants of Nonviolence

Role of the Media

March on Washington, 1963

Civil Rights Act, 1964

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

          Freedom Summers, 1964-65

Voting Rights Act, 1965

Black Power Movement

Malcolm X