1950s Civil Rights Movement

Lectures in History

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History, Politics, News

4.1 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2020

⏱️ 116 minutes

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American History Professor Quintard Taylor looks at the Civil Rights Movement from the 1940s through the 1960s. Professor Taylor focuses on the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Brown v. Board of Education and the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. This two-hour class took place at the University of Washington in Seattle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.3	This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast.
1:04.3	This week, a class on the civil rights movement from the 1940s through the 1960s.
1:10.1	It was taught in 2012 by University of Washington professor Quintard Taylor.
1:17.4	Folks, welcome to this class in African American history.
1:21.7	We're going to discuss the civil rights movement, or at least we're going to begin our discussion of the civil rights movement tonight.
1:24.6	For those of you, those of you in this room know who I am, but for others, I'm Quintard Taylor,
1:30.3	and I'm a professor of history, American history at the University of Washington.
1:36.3	Okay, we'll get started.
1:39.3	Last time, last week we talked about World War II, and one of the things that I tried to emphasize
1:47.1	was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant or aggressive in terms of
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