Civil Rights Movement

If you can’t read the picture, it says “2. Discuss the Civil Rights Movement.
In this essay, first look at the Secure These Rights and what it said about racial inequality. What was the segregated South
like? Who were the Dixiecrats? Look at the efforts to desegregate schools – Brown v Board and the “Southern Manifesto.
Make sure you cover Emmett Till. Look at Little Rock. The fight to desegregate public spaces – sit-ins, bus boycott, Freedom
Rides, etc. What was happening in Birmingham? Civil Rights Act of 1964? Look at the push toward the Voting Rights Act –
Freedom Summer, Selma March etc. You will need to cover the major figures and groups involved in the movement. Voting
Rights Act? Don’t just list names like Rosa Parks and MLK – connect them to specific events. Cover various organizations,
like CORE, SCLC, SNNC.

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