Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation
Discussion & Essay Questions
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- Big Picture
- How much changed for African Americans between 1865 and 1950?
- To what extent was Jim Crow still a part of their experience?
- What sorts of events had triggered the most significant changes for African Americans?
- Did these changes suggest that further progress was imminent?
- In what ways was the political climate ripe for reform at the end of World War II?
- Why was America poised and forced to confront racial injustice?
- What combination of factors converged to expand and focus the civil rights movement of the 1950s?
- What role did each of the following play in this process? What lesson did each teach civil rights activists?
- World War II
- The Cold War
- Emmet Till
- The Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education
- The Montgomery bus boycott
- The Birmingham marches
- What role did each of the following play in this process? What lesson did each teach civil rights activists?