The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement | Segregation Is Morally Wrong
Throughout his legal career, Thurgood Marshall used the courts to expose Jim Crow practices and dismantle the legal foundations of segregation. In the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, his most famous case and perhaps one of the most important cases in American history, Marshall pleaded the legal case against segregation in the public schools. On the eve of his decisive victory in the case, Marshall delivered a lecture at Dillard University in New Orleans. In the following speech, which originally appeared in the Edwin R. Embree Memorial Lectures, Marshall explains why...
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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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