Essential understandings:
1. The Civil Rights Movement of the twentieth century was committed to equal rights and fair treatment of African Americans, but it resulted in social, legal, political, and cultural changes that prohibited discrimination and segregation for all Americans.
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MLK's "I have a dream speech"
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - August 28, 1963
The children's March: Birmingham, Alabama 1963
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C.T. Vivian:
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On the morning of July 17, 2020 Reverend C.T. Vivian passed away, later that evening, Congressman John Lewis died the same day. Two titans of the Civil Rights Movement, never to be forgotten.
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Shelley vs. Kraemer:Restrictive Housing Covenants...the Denial of the American Dream.
How racially discriminatory housing covenants prevented generations of African Americans from gaining wealth through home ownership. |
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