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Racism in America
- Emancipation (1863)
- Betrayal of Reconstruction (1877)
- Segregation ("Jim Crow")
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Denial of Voting Rights -- Literacy Tests, Poll Tax, Intimidation
- KKK and Lynchings
Background Conditions
- The Great Migration: Urbanization and Proletarianization
- World War II (Fair Employment Practices Commission) and the Black Vets
- Labor Unions: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (A. Philip Randolph), UAW
- Black Churches, Black Colleges, Black Lodges
- National Liberation Movements Worldwide and the Cold War
- Democrats vs. Republicans
Court Challenges to Segregation
- NAACP's Legal Defense Fund (Thurgood Marshall)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954) - segregation violates "Due Protection Clause" of 14th Ammendment
- "All Deliberate Speed" guidelines (1955)
- White Councils, "States Rights", and Massive Resistance
Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott
- Rosa Parks and E.D. Nixon (December 1, 1955)
- Montgomery Bus Boycott (December 5, 1955 - December 21, 1956)
- Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Gandhian Nonviolence
- Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)
Little Rock, Arkansas
- Central High School Desegregation (1957)
- President Eisenhower and the 101st Airborne
The Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides
- Greensboro Sit -in (February 1, 1960)
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Freedom Rides (Summer 1961)
March on Washington
- 200,000 March on Wahsington (August 28, 1963)
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech
"Bombingham"
- Police Commissioner "Bull" Connor
- Church bombed; 4 black children murdered (September 12, 1963)
Mississippi Burning
- James Meredith and "Ole Miss" (September-October 1962)
- SNCC Voter Drives (1963)
- Medger Evers murdered (June 12, 1963)
- Freedom Summer (1964)
- Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney murdered (June 21, 1964)
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party founded
Civil Rights Acts
- Civil Rights Act (1964)
- Voting Rights Act (1965)
Malcolm X
- Short life and political biography
- Organization for African American Unity
- UN Petition on Genocide
Black Power
- SNCC and departure of whites
- Stokely Carmichael and Mark Hamilton's book Black Power
- Watts Riot
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