An Old War's open wounds continue to fester: The Civil Rights Movement

Lecture Synopsis for Monday 12 Feb

1. The Legacy of Slavery

2. From World War II to 1954

3. Civil Rights: Definitions

4. 1954 Brown v Board of Education, Topeka

5. 1955/6 Montgomery Bus Boycott

6. 1957 Little Rock

7. 1963 Martin Luther King

8. Radicalisation - Malcolm X, Black Panthers

9. 1968 'I have a dream'

10. Legislation 1964/68

11. The division of The Civil War continues to divide