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The American Dream During the Civil Rights Movement
The “American Dream” Definition: “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement...a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and recognized by others for what they are.”
–James Truslow Adams’ The Epic of America (1931)
Research Topics
Plessy v. Ferguson
Jim Crow Laws
The Great Migration
Brown v. Board of Education
Little Rock Nine
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Greensboro Sit-Ins
Freedom Riders
The Beliefs of Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Dubois
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