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
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