8.6 Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement

What did Harry S. Truman do for segregation?

• established the Committee on Civil Rights

• strengthened civil rights division of the Justice Department

How did the Cold War impact segregation?

it made a bigger urge for America to fix its segregational issues bc they wanted to look like the good guys

Brown v. Board of Education

• Segregation was unconstitutional

What reactions did individuals have about the brown v. board of education?

• The south resisted it, creating the Southern Manifesto paper which was signed

• Some public schools were closed and set up private schools

• Ku Klux klan had a comback and violence erupted

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white individual. This was followed by Martin Luther King Jr becoming an inspirational leader of a nonviolent movement

What were some nonviolent protests?

• Martin Luther created Southern Christian leadership conference to work on civil rights struggle

• Joh Lewis forme the student nonviolent coordinating committee, promoting voting rights and to end segregation

what did Eisenhower do for segregation?

• modest reforms like providing for a permanent civil rights commission and giving the justice department new powers to protect the voting rights of african americans