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Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980

The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)

Explain how 1960s activists used direct action, nonviolence and the law to win federal civil rights laws, why resistance persisted, and why the movement split after 1965.

Topic 8.10 · 17 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Direct action, 1960 to 1962
  2. 02Birmingham, Washington and the Civil Rights Act
  3. 03Voting rights: Mississippi and Selma
  4. 04The Warren Court and individual rights
  5. 05Resistance, unrest and the split over nonviolence
  6. 06Worked examples
  7. 07Where students lose points
  8. 08On the exam

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