Using prerecorded lectures (links provided below), material from Chapters 27, 28, 29, and 30 from The American Challenge, and in The American Challenge Reader, or approved other sources noted above, describe the rise of the three post-World War II civil rights movements. Choose from three of the following: the African American, Latinx, Native American, the LGBTQ, and women’s freedom struggles. How did World War II create a political atmosphere in the United States that promoted the rise of these movements? What motivated these movements? What triumphs and defeats did these movements experience? Who were the leaders of these movements? What books did leaders of the movements write and what important reforms did they inspire? What similarities did these freedom struggles have with the environmental movement? Finally, how did the political establishment react to these movements? Relevant pre-recorded lectures: World War II, the Holocaust, and African Americans During the War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLdPhWgs7jU&t=63s (Links to an external site.) The Latinx Community, Nuclear Fears, and the Start of the Post-War Civil Rights Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlgO73U_WCQ&t=66s (Links to an external site.) The Brown Decision, The Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Sit-In Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNWiLEA79o&t=65s (Links to an external site.) “Letter from a Birmingham Jail, George Wallace, A Church Bombing, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lq4qqN0RRE&t=342s (Links to an external site.) The 1965 Voting Rights Act, Malcolm X, and Urban Uprisings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d0dWNKyclE&t=87s (Links to an external site.) The FBI, The Poor People’s Campaign, The Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, and MLK’s Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dki0SQYT7Ho&t=98s (Links to an external site.) The FBI War on the Black Panthers, and the Latinx Freedom Struggle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSD7IHvDbig&t=53s (Links to an external site.) Second-Wave Feminism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQgH8v-BbSw (Links to an external site.) Feminism, the LGBTQ Freedom Struggle, The American Indian Movement and Environmentalism in the 1960s and 1970s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXvFVywhdvk&t=2s (Links to an external site.)
