Entering the 60s

Last class: suburbs/gender roles/
Intensification of cold war, poc systematically excluded from suburban dream, 1950s.
Missing notes 0ct 16, oct 25, oct 29, nov 1

Times are a Changin Bob Dylan
enter the 1960s
Civil Rights
JFK
Social unrest in 60s, social turmoil
savant campaign, antiwar protests,
Increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam, racial contrast at home.
Political violence on an unprecedented scale
A decade of violent change, heightened social awareness, generational conflicts
mid-1950s Civil Rights movement gained momentum across the S starth and across the nation. Very polarized- a place a inequality and segregation by race. In 1950s mass actions against Jim Crow.
Brown vs Board of Education 1954,, major catalyst of Civil Rights movement
Major catalyst, Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
genus Rosa Parks a seamstress, secretary of local NAACP chapter, respected constituent of AA community in Mont, AL
- Rosa Parks arrested for keeping her peck seat
- AA in Mont, AL stopped taking the bus
a a few(prenominal) months earlier another AA refused to give up her seat, she was young widowed and pregnant, not the best spokesperson for the movement.
AFTER I HAD stipendiary MY FAIR AND OCCUPIED MY SEAT I DIDNT think of I SHOULD HAVE TO GIVE IT UP.




-beginning of the civil rights movement
381 days African Americans didnt take the bus in AL.
major disaster for black community. Most didnt own cars, they had to figure out a way to travel. Walking, biking, etc.
exhausting travel to already prospicient workdays
Nov 1956- supreme court outlaws segregation in public transportation, methodicalness Mont. Busses to integrate. ends boycott.

The Revered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
26 years old. spick-and-span arrival to Mont. Came to be a pastor at a church.
Spokesperson for civil rights. Very charismatic, good speaker, propels him to leadership role.
1956 helped establish- SCLC grey Christian Leadership Conference
coalition of Black ministers and Civil Rights Activists who began to conjure for...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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