LECTURE 23: CIVIL RIGHTS, 1945-1965

Lecture Outline

1. Pressure groups and behavioral scientists.
2. The Cold War influence.
3. Grass-roots activism.
4. Congress acts, 1964-1965.

Important Information, Terms, and Names from this Lecture

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1910) - NAACP
Gunnar Myrdal, The American Dilemma (1944)
Racial attitudes of adult whites:
  • 15 % - hard-core racist
  • 25 % - hard-core egalitarian
  • 60 % - "conforming majority"
    Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56)
    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957)
    Freedom Rides (1961)
    "Ole Miss" Riot (1962)
    Central High School
    Civil Rights Act (1964)
    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1961)
    Voting Rights Act (1965)

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