rights in the postwar era. Stemming from an effort dating back to the Civil War and

Reconstruction, the black movement had gained more momentum by the mid-twentieth

century. African Americans continued to press forward for more equality through

peaceful demonstrations and protests. But change came slowly indeed. Rigid segregation

of public accommodations remained the ruled in the South, despite a victory in the

Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1955. School integration occurred after the Brown

v. Board of Education decision of 1954, but not without struggles. In the North, urban

ghettos grew, as the growth of blacks grew. Crowded public housing, poor schools, and

limited economic opportunities fostered serious discontent.

In the North and South alike, consciousness of the need to combat racial

discrimination grew. Support bubbled up from different social groups. Young people in

There is still a long way to go in the fight against discrimination, but we are moving closer

city regulations against parading without a license, and, over a five-week period, they

created equal.' I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former

much sympathy for black Americans' civil rights struggle.

protest. At this march on Washington, he proclaimed his faith in the decency of his fellow

and class lines. "We believed that while a campaign in Birmingham would surly be the

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