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17: Civil rights and social movements in the Americas post 1945

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Indigenous peoples and civil rights in the Americas

African Americans and the civil rights movement: origins, tactics and organizations; the US Supreme Court and legal challenges to segregation in education; ending of segregation in the south (1955–1980)

Role of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in the civil rights movement; the rise of radical African American activism (1965–1968): Black Panthers; Black Power and Malcolm X; role of governments in civil rights movements in the Americas

Feminist movements in the Americas; reasons for emergence; impact and significance

Hispanic American movement in the United States; Cesar Chavez; immigration reform

Youth culture and protests of the 1960s and 1970s: characteristics and manifestation of a counter-culture