Demands for Civil Rights

 Challenging the Rule: Separate Leagues  Dodgers  MVP- 1949

 “nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”  Has America been living up to its creed?

 Migration  New Deal  World War II  NAACP

 Background  Thurgood Marshall  Case decision  Unanimous decision- Warren Court

 Different groups  Deep South  KKK  States’ rights

 From the courts to the streets  Rosa Parks  Bus Boycott- WPC  Martin Luther King Jr.

 Integration  National Guard  Eisenhower’s reaction

 Mexican Americans  Native Americans