The Civil Rights' Movement, the New Frontier and the Great Society

8 Novembro 2017, 16:00 • Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) as the culmination of a long fight for civil rights in the US;

The Montgomery bus boycott revised – the role of the women of the NAACP and the role of clerics/activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr.,

The Birmingham campaign of 1963: violence against protesters and bombings; 

End of the deacade marked by riots in inner-cities  and "white flight to suburbs" (a means to achieve RE-segregation);

Bob Dyland and Nina Simone - social commentary and protest songs: different roles in the movement;

The liberal presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.