WELD 174AB Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fair Deal, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
19 Jul 2020
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The civil rights movement 1940s 1960s . Themes: jim crow, world war ii, truman and to secure these rights, eisenhower and brown v. board of. Education: accelerating civil rights activism in the early 1960s, civil rights act, voting rights act. Plessy v. ferguson (1890: court upheld a state law that segregated the races in transportation. Court"s analysis, races could be confined to separate spheres within society as long as they were treated equally, thus originating the separate but equal doctrine: hierarchy that privileged whiteness. African americans in world war ii: the second great migration, 1940 1970, gave rise to naacp, mobilized court cases, boom time for activists and similar organizations. Johnson; limited but a big moment was the desegregation of the armed forces; civil rights report important in laying out a blueprint for what the government should do: faced pressure from southern democrats; confronting opposition from. Republicans, more generally opposed to the fair deal to build on the new.
