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Why did the Civil Rights Movement Occur in the 1950s and 1960s?

Why did the Civil Rights Movement Occur in the 1950s and 1960s?. WWII legacy – . African Americans involvement both abroad and on the home front gave them a better sense of the world and their place in the world. Growth.

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Why did the Civil Rights Movement Occur in the 1950s and 1960s?

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  1. Why did the Civil Rights Movement Occur in the 1950s and 1960s?

  2. WWII legacy – • African Americans involvement both abroad and on the home front gave them a better sense of the world and their place in the world

  3. Growth • after WWII, African Americans population dramatically increases within urban settings • leaders of the civil rights movement emerge out of the urban black communities • urban African Americans had better accessibility to education and organize within independent institutions

  4. Television • activities, such as demonstrations, were publicized thru television to a national audience • activism within one community would spark activism within another community

  5. Cold War • Racial injustice was an embarrassment to the “model” country

  6. Politics • Political mobilization of African Americans within the northern, urban settings had a major influence on the voting bloc for Democratic Party

  7. Other important factors in the Civil Rights Movement: • NAACP- formed in 1910 • Used judicial system to attack Jim Crow laws • Thurgood Marshall was the lead attorney • Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 • Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson in an unanimous decision • Chief Justice Earl Warren, “ We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. • Brown II (one year later) issued guidelines for implementing the decision- “with all deliberate speed”

  8. Con’t • Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955 • Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the “colored” section of the bus • Civil Rights Act of 1957 • Eisenhower signed to provide federal protection of blacks who wished to register to vote ( very weak bill with little enforcement; however, was the first civil rights bill since reconstruction)

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