Pursuing Life and Liberty: Equality in the USA 1945-68

Pursuing Life and Liberty: Equality in the USA 1945-68

1. Seeds of Change 1945-55

   • 1. From Slavery to Segregation
   • 2. Position of black american in 1945
   • 3.To Secure These Rights: Truman and The Cold War
   • 4. Challenging Jim Crow
   • 5. Raising the profile of civil rights - kicking "Jim Crow" out of school

2. MLK and Peaceful Protest 1955-68

   • 1. Early Southern Campaigns 1955-62
   • 2. Later Southern Campaigns 1963-65
   • 3. MLK's last campaigns
   • 4. The Role of Federal Government
   • 5.Opposition to Change
   • 6. The Achievements of Peaceful Protest
   • 7. Reasons for Change?

3. Black Power

   • 1. Malcolm X - an alt vision
   • 2. Divisions in the Civil Rights Movement
   • 3. The Black Panthers
   • 4. Achievements of the Black Power Movement

4. Protest Culture: The 60s and a generation

   • 1. Mainstream and Counterculture in the 60s
   • 2. Womens Lib
   • 3. Native Americans and Hispanic Americans