Social movements have been a part of the history of the US. Certainly one of the most important movements in contemporary US was the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement and after the century of segregation that followed the Emancipation Proclamation..
In 1954, the Supreme Court ‘officially’ found that segregation was unconstitutional. Yet, it took bus boycotts, sit-ins and freedom marches to effect real change in the US and finally the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Other issues, like freedom to marry someone of a different race to even longer.
Go to this site – http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia_contents.html and find and read about 2 individuals who were active in the US Civil Rights Movement (other than Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. – do not use this individuals) Find at least one other biographical source for the individual you selected (and document both) and provide the following –
(1) Summarize their role in the civil rights movement ?
(2) What motivated the person you selected to become active in the movement?
(3) What was the significance of their contribution?
(4) What did you learn (new information) about the Civil Rights Movement that helps you understand social movements?
