The Civil Rights Movement (jan 1, 1960 – oct 1, 1970)

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-African Americans were fighting against economic and political disadvantages as well as racial discrimination (housing and job exclusion)
-African Americans looked to northern courts and legislatures for civil rights
-WWII caused many Americans to condemn racism at home
-African Americans had greater access to the middle class (education and media access)
-television spread the message of racial equality
-African Americans took nonviolent actions to protest
-Cold War anticommunism helped and prevented civil rights
->America wanted to display its advancements in racial equality
->many opposed by charging that racial integration was "communistic"
-Mexican and Japanese Americans also challenged discrimination
-heavily opposed by southern whites
-nonviolent direct action (Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery Bus Boycott, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Greensboro Sit-ins, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Freedom Rides, and protests/marches)
-legal action began
-liberal Democrat action (civil rights and rights Liberalism)
-civil rights divided the Democratic party
-televised action
-Supreme Court decisions and new laws did not immediately change society (economic, political, and social discrimination continued)
-civil rights leaders condemned violence
-riots in cities
Warren Court:
-expanded the constitution's promise of equality and civil rights
-issued landmark decisions in civil rights, criminal rights, reproductive rights, and separation of church and state
-opposed by right-wing activists
-women's and gay rights movements flourished in the 1970's (legal action)

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