The South Since 1940

 
Rayford Logan, What the Negro Wants (1944)

A. Phillip Randolph
     -Executive Order #8802

Federal Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)

Economic Development

Smith v. Allwright (1938)

Baker v. Carr (1962)

Presidential Commission on Civil Rights (1946)
     -To Secure These Rights (1947)

Strom Thurmond
     -Dixiecrats (1948)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
     -Separate but Equal

Gaines v. Canada (1938)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56)
     -Martin Luther King, Jr.
     -Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957)

Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960

Orval Faubus (Arkansas)
     -Central High School (Little Rock)

"Southern Manifesto"

Eugene "Bull" Connor

Civil Rights March on Washington, 1963
       -Martin Luther King, Jr., "I have a Dream" Speech

Civil Rights Act of 1964
     -Public Accommodations
     -Employment

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Busing

George Wallace (1968)

  Decolonization


   Election of 1948

  Election of 1960

   Election of 1968

 Segregated Schools

    "Bull" Connor

George Wallace at
University of Alabama

Martin Luther King

Birmingham, 1963

Birmingham, 1963

       Rosa Parks

Voting Rights, 1965-1971

Washington Civil Rights March, 1963