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Civil Rights and Expanding Roles for Government

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AP U.S. History Period 8: 1945-1980

Key Concept 8.2 — New movements for civil rights and liberal efforts to expand the role of government generated a range of political and cultural responses.

Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama.

The text reads "Until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream"

Topics on the Page

Women's Rights Movement

Latino Civil Rights Movement

The Native American Rights Movement

The Long Civil Rights Movement

Brown v. Board of Education
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Little Rock Crisis
The Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society

The Gay Rights Movement

The Worker Health and Rights Movement

The Women's Rights Movement

Link here for information on the Women's Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

The Long Civil Rights Movement

Link to Origins, Goals and Events of the Civil Rights Movement

Historical Biography page: Marian Anderson, Singer and Civil Rights Activist

Historical Biography page: The Tuskegee Airmen

Historical Biography page: Bessie Coleman, Civil Rights Pioneer

NAACP 100 of History Timeline focuses on milestone events in civil rights history for the past 100 years, and Civil Rights Movement timeline during the 1950s.

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Medal Commemorating Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine, Harry and Eliza Briggs and Levi Pearson

Brown v. Board of Education (1955)

The History of Brown v. Board of Education from the United States Court Site

From PBS, Brown v. Board of Education

Written decision from Chief Justice Earl Warren of Brown v. Board of Education.

From the Washington Post, Five Myths about Brown v. Board

Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56)

From the History Channel, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Sarah Keyes Speaks about Segregated Buses from NBC News, December 18, 1955.

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott from Historical Thinking Matters has documents, video and audio along with focus questions for use with students.

Speech from Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the bus boycott.

Little Rock Crisis (1957)

Eisenhower and the Little Rock Crisis

The Little Rock Crisis

Lesson plan packet for teaching the Little Rock Nine.

Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education in the United States 2011 from the Southern Poverty Law Center documents the neglect of the Civil Rights Movement in history teaching across the nation.

16 states do not require any instruction about civil rights.

Only 2% of 12th graders on the 2010 NEAP US History exam could identify that the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was "prompted by segregation" and that "segregation applied to schools."

See the article, Rosa Parks: Abused and Misused from Teaching Tolerance Magazine.

How do You Teach the Civil Rights Movement? from The New York Times reviews how the struggle for African American rights is treated in curriculum frameworks and schools around the country.

See E.W. Steptoe Greets Bob Moses, 1963 for a short clips from Freedom Bound by Harvey Richards that focuses on efforts to register African Americans to vote in the South in the 1950s and 1960s

The Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

Link to information on the Presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter

Teaching the Movement 2014: The State of Civil Rights Education in the United States from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Walkout in Crystal City tells the story of a 1969 student walkout at a high school where an all-White school board was allowed only one Mexican American girl to be a member of the cheerleading squad.

Lectures in History: 20th Century Political Activism by Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland Baltimore County (2011).

20th Century Social Protest Posters, University of Michigan