Second Reconstruction

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Second Reconstruction

• Origins and Growth of the Civil Rights Movement

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Origins of Civil Rights Movement

• New Deal and AAA
• pushed blacks out of farm country
• WWII
• war industries increased urbanization
• Four Freedoms
• 50s Prosperity
• Cold War rhetoric

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Movement Begins

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• separate is unequal
• use of courts and role of NAACP
• Southern resistance
• Little Rock (1957)
• Central High Nine
• federal govt intervenes

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Movement Begins

• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• rise of MLK and role of the church
• mass movement

Rosa Parks arrest
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Civil Rights in the 60s

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comm
• sit-ins and entrance of youth

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Civil Rights in the 60s

• Freedom Riders (1961)
• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
• enter whites

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Civil Rights in the 60s

• 1963
• Birmingham
• March on Washington
• Kennedy assassination

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Free at Last?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• banned segregation in public places and
  discrimination in employment
• Freedom Summer
• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• permitted fed. govt to aid black voting