The History of Civil Rights

The History of Civil Rights. Learning Objectives for this video:

• The History of Civil Rights. Learn about Civil Rights and African American Pride. Learn about the struggle of African Americans to overcome racial discrimination from the end of the Civil War through the 1960's. Identify the contributions of Asa Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. to the African American struggle for equal rights.
• Trace the African American struggle for equality following the Civil War, gaining insight to the impact of Jim Crow laws and the poverty, discrimination, segregation, and threat of white violence experienced by blacks who lived in the South.
• Grasp the post-World War 2 factors that led to a new civil rights movement, including the increased recognition of the NAACP and the end of European colonialism.
• Survey the backdrop and achievements of the Civil Rights movement, examining the impact of Brown v. Board of Education, boycotts, sit-ins, and marches; and review the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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