1. Civil Rights: Race Discrimination
Dred Scott Decision
Emancipation Proclamation
Plessey v. Ferguson
Truman Executive Order
Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott
CORE, NAACP
Freedom Rides
Brown v. Board
Eisenhower and National Guard
Wallace and Univ. of Alabama
Kennedy Speech
King – Mountaintop Speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965

8. Civil Rights and Realignment of Parties
Some scholars believe that civil rights served as a wedge issue that has led to a realignment of the Democratic and Republican parties (around 1964)
Republican Senator Goldwater (AZ) voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lyndon Johnson - “I think we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come”

10. Recent Events End of affirmative action in California
Upcoming Supreme Court case revisiting affirmative action
Calls for reparations for slavery
There is precedent for reparations (survivors of Holocaust, survivors of U.S. internment of Japanese during WWII)
Rep. Conyers (D-MI) has introduced reparations legislation in almost every Congress over last 10 years