US History › Section O · The 1960s and 1970s › Topic O.3
The civil rights movement in the 1960s
The great civil rights laws of the 1960s were won first in the streets, lunch counters and county courthouses of the South, by ordinary people willing to risk jail, beatings and death. As the decade went on, frustration with slow change and Northern poverty pushed many activists towards Black Power, while Mexican Americans built a movement of their own.
In this topic
- Change from the bottom up
- Sit-ins and SNCC, 1960
- The Freedom Rides, 1961
- Birmingham and the March on Washington, 1963
- Freedom Summer, 1964
- Worked example: from Freedom Summer to the ballot
- Worked example: reading the Kerner report
- Black Power
- King's last campaigns
- The Mexican American movement
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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