What Were the Strategies That Black Leaders Followed in Order to Obtain Civil Rights

AP Gov’t Civil Rights Narrative M Lynde

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Directions: Using the website http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_civilrights64_contents.htm Create a civil rights narrative where you answer the following:

1. What were the strategies that black leaders followed in order to obtain civil rights? Once basic rights such as voting and integration had been obtained, what issues did civil rights leaders focus on?

2. Briefly outline the steps in the NAACP’s strategy in the fight against segregated schools and indicate the success they had in the courts and in implementing desegregation.

3. What was the issue concerning desegregation vs. integration? How has this issue been resolved?

4. What were the four developments that made it possible to pass civil rights bills?

5. What accounts for the change in attitude in Congress towards civil rights issues from the 1960s to the present?