Why did civil rights politics succeed in 1950s

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Question: In post-Civil War America, the years between 1890 and 1920 were the nadir of Black life: three decades of lynching and Jim Crow, with little positive change in sight. Yet by the 1950s the United States was undergoing a black political revolution. You are to answer the question: Why did civil rights politics succeed in 1950s and early 1960s?

In this essay, you will discuss the dynamics of black political and social power as you understand them. It will be your job to consider the various ways Black political activism were expressed (Christian non-violence, civil rights, black power, legal activism, labor politics, the New Left etc.) and the their interaction with the most important features of their time (corporate capitalism, internal migration, the depression, the New Deal, demographic change, the Cold War, and much else).

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