American Civil Rights Movement 1940-1960 Honors U.S. History.
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American Civil Rights Movement 1940-1960
Honors U.S. History
The Double V Campaign
• Victory against Fascism abroad with victory against racism at home
• Treatment of African-Americans unfair given what they did during the war
President Harry S Truman
• From Missouri• Believed in Civil
Rights• 1946 - Creates
Committee on Civil Rights
• 1948 – Desegregates army
• Can’t go too far due to southern Democrat support
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Plessey v. Feruson (1896) – Segregation is legal as long as facilities
• Linda Brown, eight year old African-American girl, was forced to attend a school over a mile away– Despite their being a
school closer to her home
• Supreme Court rules school segregation as “inherently unconstitutional”
Central High School and the Little Rock Nine
• “Brown v. Board” decision infuriates South
• Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and National Guard block entrance
• President Eisenhower send in military to escort students inside
Civil Disobedience
• Rosa Parks, 1955 - Refuses to move to the back of a Montgomery City Lines bus
• Her arrest lead to a boycott of the buses
• Lead by a young Martin Luther King
• Practice of civil disobedience/nonviolence