2. American Civil Rights Movement 1940-1960 Honors U.S. History

3. The Double V Campaign Victory against Fascism abroad with victory against racism at home Treatment of African- Americans unfair given what they did during the war

4. President Harry S Truman From Missouri Believed in Civil Rights 1946 - Creates Committee on Civil Rights 1948 – Desegregates army Can’t go too far due to southern Democrat support

7. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Plessey v. Feruson (1896) – Segregation is legal as long as facilities Linda Brown, eight year old African-American girl, was forced to attend a school over a mile away –Despite their being a school closer to her home Supreme Court rules school segregation as “inherently unconstitutional”

8. Central High School and the Little Rock Nine “Brown v. Board” decision infuriates South Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and National Guard block entrance President Eisenhower send in military to escort students inside

9. Civil Disobedience Rosa Parks, 1955 - Refuses to move to the back of a Montgomery City Lines bus Her arrest lead to a boycott of the buses Lead by a young Martin Luther King Practice of civil disobedience/nonviolence