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Civil Rights

Civil Rights. Postwar United States (1945–1975). Reconstruction legislation. Do these laws have anything in common?. Disenfranchisement. In some Southern counties, blacks outnumbered whites. If whites were to maintain political power, they had to find ways to disenfranchise blacks.

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Civil Rights

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  1. Civil Rights Postwar United States (1945–1975)

  2. Reconstruction legislation Do these laws have anything in common?

  3. Disenfranchisement In some Southern counties, blacks outnumbered whites. If whites were to maintain political power, they had to find ways to disenfranchise blacks. The Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist organizations threatened, attacked and lynched black people who tried to exercise their rights and any whites who supported them. In some states black people were kept away from the polls by not only the fear of violence, but also by legal barriers.

  4. Literacy tests How did these questions make you feel?

  5. Court battles Plessy v. Ferguson had legalized segregation in 1896. In the 20th century, the NAACP set to work attacking segregation in the courts. Thurgood Marshall became the NAACP’s chief legal officer in 1940. He went on to win 29 out of 32 desegregation cases before the Supreme Court. Among other things, these cases prohibited segregation on interstate buses and required state graduate schools to admit black applicants.

  6. Brown v. Board of Education

  7. Brown v. Board of Education: analysis

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