LS 645 - The Pre-Civil Rights Movement: The Generation before Brown, 1932-1954

(3.00 cr.)

An investigation of the beginnings and growth of the struggle for African American civil rights in the United States from 1932 to 1954. This study looks at the early roots of segregation in the late nineteenth century; the role and influence of the labor movement on civil rights in the early to mid-twentieth century; the impact of the Great Depression and World War II on the civil rights movement; and finally, culminates in the efforts and events which produced the landmark decision of Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954.