US History › Section N · World War II and the early Cold War › Topic N.8
The early African American civil rights struggle
Between 1945 and 1957, Black Americans challenged segregation in courtrooms, classrooms and city buses. Their victories, from Brown v. Board of Education to the Montgomery bus boycott, met fierce white resistance, and they laid the foundations for the mass movement of the 1960s.
In this topic
- Postwar demands and broken barriers
- The legal strategy
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Worked example: how Brown was won
- "All deliberate speed" and massive resistance
- The murder of Emmett Till
- The Montgomery bus boycott
- Worked example: why the boycott succeeded
- The Little Rock Nine
- After Little Rock
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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