AP United States History

GCSE History: AQA (8145/AA) • Edexcel (1HI0/33) • Eduqas (C100U1/2A) • OCR A (J410/07)

A brief introduction to opposition to the civil rights movement, including White Citizens' Councils, Dixiecrats, and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), along with their use of economic coercion, political manoeuvring, and violence as tools of resistance to desegregation in the Southern United States. This lesson considers opposition to Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Civil Rights Act (1964), and the Voting Rights Act (1965), and the various ways in which this opposition manifested itself.