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Includes: access to quick quizzes at www.hodderplus.co.uk/myrevisionnotes CONTENTS: Introduction Section 1: Signs of change 1945-1955 President Truman & Civil Rights The NAACP & education The extent of change by 1955 Exam focus Section 2: The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 Montgomery Bus Boycott & the Little Rock campaign Sit-ins & freedom rides From Albany to Birmingham March on Washington & the Civil Rights Act (1964) Voting rights: 1957-1965 Martin Luther King's northern campaigns Opposition to civil rights Key players: King Kennedy & Johnson Achievements of peaceful protest Exam focus Section 3: Black Nationalism & Black Power Malcolm XBlack Panthers Exam focus Section 4: Protest culture & the 1960s Mass culture Feminism Exam focus Glossary Timeline Answers