Textbook is as follows: Foner, E., Give Me Liberty: An American History, 4th Edition, W. W. Norton & Company.
Using the textbook and the following resources, trace the development of the Civil Rights Movement from the Brown v. Board decision to the Black Power Movement. Make sure to present a thesis at the beginning of your essay:
https://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/civil-rights-movement/essays/civil-rights-movement-major-events-and-legacies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power
Address the following questions in your essay:
- What various strategies were adopted by civil rights leaders?
- How did civil rights activists bring the movement to national attention?
- Why was the federal government reluctant to fully support the movement?
- What role did the federal government eventually play in the movement?
- What successes were achieved?
- Why did the movement eventually lose momentum?
Essay should be minimum of 700 words. Use MLA style for use of sources and citations.