Week of April 3, Monday Lecture

I. Civil Rights and Modern American History

II. The Story of Emmett Till

IMAGE: Emmett Till

III. Segregation

• Violence
  Lynchings By State and Race, 1882-1962
• Poverty
• Jim Crow Laws
  IMAGE: Busing
  IMAGE: Segregated Cafe
  IMAGE: Water Fountain
• Psychological Costs
• A Total System

IV. Forces for Change

• Migration North
• The Experience of Both World Wars
• The Cold War

V. The Movement

VI. The NAACP and the Brown Decision

• Marshall and Warren
  TEXT: The Complete Text of the Decision
  IMAGE: The NAACP Lawyers
  IMAGE: Earl Warren
• Reinterpreting the 14th Amendment

VII. Eisenhower's Response

VIII. White Resistance

• Southern Manifesto
• Little Rock
  IMAGE: Central High School

IX. Montgomery Bus Boycott

IMAGE: Rosa Parks on the Bus
IMAGE: Rosa Parks at the Police Station
IMAGE: Martin Luther King in Montgomery

X. King and SCLC

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