Civil Rights and Other Social Movements

Social Movements in the "1960s"

I. Civil Rights:
A. Enforcing Segregation:
1. Culturally
2. Legal: Plessy v Ferguson (1898)

B. Fighting Segregation:
1. NAACP
2. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
a. Brown II
b. Resisting Justice:
Little Rock Central High School (1957)
Orval Faubus
3. Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott:
4. The Sit-Ins:
5. Freedom Rides:
6. JFK:
a. Civil Rights Act of 1964
b. Voting Rights Act of 1965
--Fannie Lou Hammer

II. OTHER MOVEMENTS:
A. UFW
B. Anti-War
C. American Indian Movement
D. Women’s Movement
E. Environment