HIST 1378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Civil Rights Movements, Commodification, African Nationalism
6 Nov 2020
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Liberal backlash of civil rights movement (after voting and civil rights act) Most americans were supportive of civil rights movement because there was no personal involvement: working class in the north weren"t affected if someone in mississippi could go to a school or vote. From 1954 to 1965 the civil rights movement was mostly in the south. The north had racism and bigotry but there wasn"t legal segregation. Mlk and civil rights movement didn"t just say we"re, we"ve succeeded. Civil rights movement became more rebellious and moves to the north as well. In the north the issues were about economic issues, housing, access to jobs and wages, healthcare, police forces: when kennedy died he said the chicken have come home to roost . Kennedy didn"t do anything about the violence in the south and so the violence got to him too.
