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
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