Civil Rights Movement: The 2nd Civil War
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Civil Rights Movement:
The Fight for Justice
Early Civil Rights Victories (1940s)
1941—Ban of
discrimination in
defense industry
jobs
1947—Jackie
Robinson
1948—Executive
Order 9981
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Segregated Busses
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King
Junior
SCOTUS—Browder v.
Gayle
Southern Christian
Leadership
Conference
Little Rock 9-Central High (1957)
Little Rock 9
Gov. Orval Faubus
uses National
Guard
Ike convinces
Faubus to integrate
101st Airborne
Division
Higher Education (1960s)
NAACP desegregates
colleges
1961 University of
Georgia
1962 James Meredith &
University of Mississippi
1963 George Wallace &
University of Alabama
Sit-in Movement (1960s)
Non-violent
Action
James Lawson’s
workshops
Dangers
Success
SNCC
Freedom Rides (1961)
CORE tests
Boynton v. Virginia
Anniston &
Birmingham
SNCC continues
despite violence
ICC forces
integration
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