The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement | Civil Rights Can Be Secured Through Legal Action
As lead attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund during the pivotal years of the black freedom struggle, Thurgood Marshall remains one of the most well-known figures of the civil rights movement. Marshall’s use of legal strategies to eradicate segregation culminated in many precedent-setting cases. In his twenty-three years with the NAACP, Marshall won twenty-nine of the thirty-two cases he argued before the Supreme Court. His most famous case, Brown v. Board of Education, declared segregation of public schools illegal. Marshall went on to become the first black justice to sit...
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- Introduction
- How Did the Fight for Rights Begin?
- Segregation or Integration?
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What Were the Strategies of the Civil Rights Movement?
- Chapter 3 Preface
- Federal Legislation Will Strengthen Civil Rights
- Federal Civil Rights Legislation Is Inadequate
- Blacks Must Employ Nonviolent Resistance
- Nonviolent Resistance Is Not Enough
- Blacks Should Strive for Black Power
- Black Power Is Ineffective
- King’s Protest Campaigns Had a Limited Impact on Civil Rights
- King’s Protest Campaigns Bolstered Civil Rights
- Who Played the Most Important Role in the Civil Rights Movement?
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