CivilRightsintheUSA1945-1968.PDF

Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1968 What do I need to revise? Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1968: Checklist 1) African Americans in the 4) Campaigns 1960-1966 th • Greensboro 1960 - w, w, w, w, o/s? 19 Century • Reconstrustion • Freedom Rides 1961 - w, w, w, w, o/s? • Jim Crow • James Meredith 1961 • Plessey v ferguson • Albany 1961-62 - w, w, w, w, o/s?  Understand position of • Birmingham 1963 - w, w, w, w, o/s? blacks. • Washington 1963 - w, w, w, w, o/s? 2) The Early 20th Century • Civil Rights Act 1964 - strengths weaknesses • Great Migration • Selma 1965 - w, w, w, w, o/s? • Great War • Voting Rights Act 1965 - strengths • Sense of Community weaknesses • The Depression • Campaigns in north - why unsuccessful? • NAACP  Know inside out. • Second World War 5) Martin Luther King?  Understand how these • Background rise to prominence factors shape Civil Rights • Strengths weaknesses post 1945. • Significance of King 3) 1945-1960  Know inside out. • Truman’s contribution; 6) Federal Government in 1960’s positive negative • Kennedy 61-63 - strengths weaknesses • Eisenhower’s contribution; • Johnson 63-68 - strengths weaknesses positive negative 7) Black Po