Civil Rights: Redeeming the Soul of America

 

-- The extension of Civil Rights was not simply a fight for rights; it was a religious movement. Black activists such as Martin Luther King turned to the black church to create a political and moral awakening among all Americans.

1) Truman and Eisenhower Administrations

-- Truman and Civil Rights: Mostly Talk

-- Little Rock (1957)

ð Ike Dawdles

ð Ike Acts

-- Civil Rights Act of 1957

2) Black Non-Violent Resistance

-- Montgomery and the Rise of Martin Luther King (1955-56)

ð Rosa Parks Arrest

ð King and Non-Violence

-- Student Sit-ins (1960)

3) Kennedy Administration

-- Inaction

-- Birmingham (1963)

-- Limits of Non-Violence

ð Freedom Summer

4) Johnson Administration

-- Fulfilling Kennedy's Legacy

ð 1964 Civil Rights Act

ð 1965 Voting Rights Act

ð 24th Amendment

5) Black Power

-- Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

-- Malcolm X

-- Black Panthers

-- King's Assassination: The Exhaustion of the Movement

6) Legacy

-- Politics

-- Income and Education

-- Decline of White Support

-- Ethnic Pride

-- Liberation of the South