1. What were the causes, successes, and failures of the civil rights movement from the 1940s through the 1960s?

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1. What were the causes, successes, and failures of the civil rights movement from the 1940s through the 1960s?

Must have at least 3 vocabs

CORE
NAACP
Brown vs. Board of Education
The Southern Manifesto
Ku Klux Klan
Little Rock Crisis
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
SCLC
sit-in
SNCC
freedom riders
“A Letter from Birmingham Jail”
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Black Power
Malcolm X
Kerner Commission

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    • Cause: Segregation
      • Jim Crow laws, de jure segregation, Plessy v. Ferguson
    • Cause: Disenfranchisement
      • Literacy tests, poll taxes, white supremacy
    • Cause: Racism and social inequality
  • The Other America, de facto segregation, highways
    • Black Power, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Nation of Islam, Black Panthers
  • Success: Nonviolence
    • MLK Jr: Montgomery Bus Boycotts, Sit-Ins, March on Washington
  • Success: Desegregation
    • Brown v. Board of Ed, Little Rock 9, Freedom Rides
    • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Success: Voting Rights
    • Freedom Summer, Selma-Montgomery March
    • Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Failure: Racism & Resistance
    • Southern Manifesto, KKK, Bloody Sunday, Dixiecrats, George Wallace
  • Failure: Social & Economic inequality
    • Detroit Riots of 1967, Kerner Commission, Election of 1968



 

 

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