The Civil Rights Movement in America

1. An Overview: 1876 through the 1950s

1. 13^th, 14^th, and 15^th Amendments
2. Plessy v. Ferguson
3. Early Leaders

1. Booker T. Washington
2. W. E. B. DuBois

4. Harlem Renaissance
5. Urban Migration
6. The New Deal & Changing Parties
7. WWII and the Tuskegee Airmen

2. A Decade of Action and Reaction

1. Eisenhower and Desegregation
2. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
3. Montgomery Bus Boycott
4. “Southern Manifesto”
5. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Nonviolent Resistance
6. Southern Christian Leadership Conference 
7. Civil Rights Act of 1957
8. Integration: Little Rock Central High School, 1957

3. A Younger Generation's Involvement

1. Sit-Ins
2. Freedom Rides
3. Protests in Birmingham, AL
4. The March on Washington
5. Freedom Summer 1964

4. From Civil Rights to Black Power, 1964-1970s

1. Civil Rights Act of 1964
2. Voting Rights Act of 1965
3. Radicalization, 1966

1. Black Power
2. Nation of Islam
3. Malcolm X
4. Black Panthers

4. The Continuing Evolution of the Civil Rights Movement