The Modern Civil Rights Movement gained momentum in the 1950s, nearly ninety years after Reconstruction. Explain how the movement finally took off in the 1950s. How did the Cold War interact with and help shape the Civil Rights Movement? What had changed in the 1950s both in the realms of technology and in what was politically possible?

The Modern Civil Rights Movement gained momentum in the 1950s, nearly ninety years after Reconstruction. Explain how the movement finally took off in the 1950s. How did the Cold War interact with and help shape the Civil Rights Movement? What had changed in the 1950s both in the realms of technology and in what was politically possible?