Today we begin a short unit on the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's and 60's. To build the context for this era of change, today we discussed the history of race relations in America from the Civil War through World War II. The failure of Reconstruction paved the way for nearly a century of segregation, and little progress was made in undoing these wrongs until the late 1940's.
Assignment: Read pages 580-88 in textbook.
Image of the arrest of Rosa Parks courtesy montgomerybusboycott.com |
American Studies
Early Cold War Era Exam (1946-63).
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