According to Black writer, intellectual, and activist W. E. B. DuBois, the great questions of the twentieth century United States were those of race and racial discrimination in American society, economy, and politics. By the 1950s and 1960s, new waves of civil rights activists emerged across the country, challenging systemic racism especially in (but not limited to) the Jim Crow south.
Select two short (1-5 minute) videos from the link below of news footage covering civil rights protests, counter protests, and other actions from these decades, and write about how the are evidence of the explosive conflict of the Civil Rights Era. What were the obstacles civil rights activists encountered? How did critics of civil rights movements respond? What do the news footage selections you chose reveal about this tumultuous time period?
**civil rights 1960s news footage – YouTube
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