CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1945–1966

Civil Rights after World War II

            Impact of war

            Truman- executive order for military

            NAACP/ CORE

            Jackie Robinson

The Segregated South

            Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education

Southern Manifesto

Crisis in Little Rock

Martin Luther King and the SCLC

            Impact of Gandhi

            Montgomery Bus Boycotts

Sit-Ins: Greensboro, Nashville, Atlanta

SNCC and the “Beloved Community”

The Election of 1960 and Civil Rights

Freedom Rides

The Albany Movement: The Limits of Protest

Birmingham

JFK and the March on Washington

LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Mississippi Freedom Summer

Malcolm X and Black Consciousness

Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Mexican Americans

Puerto Ricans

Indian Peoples

Asian Americans