civil

REMEMBER: coursepack reading/analysis on MLK & SNCC for class discussion

Civil Rights - 1954-1968

Thurgood Marshall-champion of de-segregation: Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: segregation "inherently unequal" (Earl Warren)

1955: Rosa Parks-Montgomery Bus Boycott rev. King becomes leader of movement

white South: concerted effort to resist integration/Eisenhower political neglect - Little Rock, 1957

1957: SCLC, 1960-SNCC focus efforts: sit-ins, voter registration, marches

Civil Rights, 1954-1968

JFK-slow to react-political concerns but eventually supports movement (RFK sig.)

1960-64: Freedom Riders, "ole Miss" integration, Medgar Evers killed, churches bombed: all broadcast on evening news to mainstream America - march on D.C. (8/63)

1964: Civil Rights Act/1965-Voting Rights Act/24th amendment adopted

1964-1968: Discontent, poverty fuel rising anger-Malcolm X/Nation of Islam; "Black Power," urban riots, MLK shot, 4/1968