Civil rights and Korean War

Double V campaign

victory over foreign enemies and racial discrimination at home

What was the double V campaign important for

promoted by the NAACP but also used as propaganda to discredit Nazi racism

Integration post ww2

Jackie Robinson, in 1947

Truman desegregates armed forces in 1948

Brown board of Higher Education

deemed separate but equal facilities as unconstitutional

Rosa Parks

declined to move to the back of the bus, led to the bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama

Nonviolence in civil rights inspiration

Ghandi’s campaign of resistance to British rule

What does the Korean War show the emergence of

the cold war

Cold War in Korea

Communist China and USSR supported North, UN backed south

What did the US fear coming out of WW2

the soviets dominating much of asia

Consequences of Korean war

heightened militarism in the US and renewed suspicions of communist powers, china and soviet union

Crisis at central high

black students to be integrated in high schools in arkansas saw massive backlash requiring the military to escort students into school

What was the sclc

southern christian leadership conference founded by MLK

What did the SCLC do

coordinated nonviolent civil rights campaigns across the south

What did freedom rides test

supreme court ruling banning segregation on interstate buses

what were freedom rides met with

savage violence, buses firebombed, riders beaten

Kennedy administration’s response to freedom riders

limited, administration was reluctant to act and offered minimal protection

movement for voting rights

in 1963, a quarter million people participated in the march on washington for Jobs and Freedom

What does the march on washington for jobs and freedom lead to

1964 civil rights act

1964 freedom summer

college students went to mississippi to help black citizens register to vote

civil rights movement connection to postwar economic boom

Suburban and economic growth in america explicitly excluded black americans

voting rights act of 1965

outlawed discriminatory practices southern states had used to prevent african americans from voting