Civil Rights
Truman
Desegregation of the military
Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats
Eisenhower
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Killing of Emmett Till
Earl Warren (judicial activism)
Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS
Little Rock Central High School
Civil Rights Act of 1957
SCLC
Sit ins and SNCC
Civil Rights Act of 1960
Kennedy
Voter Education Project
Freedom Riders
Birmingham Campaign
March on Washington
LBJ
Civil Rights Act of 1964
24th Amendment
Affirmative Action
Freedom Summer: Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner
Voting Rights Act of 1965
War on Poverty Headstart Public Radio Food Stamps Medicaid Medicare
Rise of Black Power
Election of 1968 George Wallace and the American Independent Party