Civil, political, and economic rights for African-Americans, and women in 1950-1960s period
Instructions
Please pick one question and write a paper five (5) pages in length (roughly 1,000-1,500 words), double-spaced, with proper citations (use either the Chicago Manual of Style or MLA). All the papers are to be presented in Times New Roman 12-point font. Be sure to use primary sources available in Voices of Freedom by Eric Foner and properly cite the reading in Chapters 24-25.
Question: Along with the critiques of free market capitalism, the 1950s and 1960s witnessed a period of challenge to the existing social order in the United States. African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and women worked both together and separately to demand receive more civil, political, and economic rights and
freedoms or as Dr. King stated "We are determined to apply our citizenship to the fullness of its meaning." Consider their demands as presented in Voices of Freedom and the positions of those who sought to limit the expansion of those rights. What are the central and connected ideas in all three groups? What are their specific grievances? How are they addressed by the American government in the 1960s?