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Examines how Presidents Truman and Eisenhower dealt with the civil rights movement, the steps taken by African Americans to combat discrimination and segregation, and the reaction of white people in the South to the civil rights movement. Includes link to 1957 documentary Crisis in Levittown that tells the story of one African-American family that moved into a white neighborhood.
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school desegregation, white response to civil rights movement, brown v. the board of education, crisis in levittown, ku klux klan, little rock nine, montgomery bus boycott, openstax: 1945-1960: african american struggle for civil rights, plessy v. fergusson, southern manifesto, civil rights and dwight eisenhower, civil rights and harry truman, integration of african americans, treatment of african american veterans after wwii, civil rights movement, 1954-1968
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)