The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement | The Government Should Not Interfere in School Segregation
In 1954 the Supreme Court declared in Brown v. Board of Education that the segregation of public schools is unconstitutional. At the same time that the landmark ruling buoyed the hopes of those within the civil rights movement, however, it compelled the more ardent segregationists to launch an offensive. To maintain the Jim Crow status quo, for example, many southern whites employed a variety of legal and political tactics to undermine and circumvent desegregation. One of the most flagrant statements against integration is the rebuttal by southern leaders to the Supreme Court’s...
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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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