Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Course US History #39
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You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about the early days of the Civil Rights movement. By way of providing context for this, John also talks a bit about wider America in the 1950s. The 1950s are a deeply nostalgic period for many Americans, but there is more than a little idealizing going on here. The 1950s were a time of economic expansion, new technologies, and a growing middle class. America was becoming a suburban nation thanks to cookie-cutter housing developments like the Levittowns. While the white working class saw their wages and status improve, the proverbial rising tide wasn't lifting all proverbial ships. A lot of people were excluded from the prosperity of the 1950s. Segregation in housing and education made for some serious inequality for African Americans. As a result, the Civil Rights movement was born. John will talk about the early careers of Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and even Earl Warren. He'll teach you about Brown v Board of Education, and the lesser known Mendez vs Westminster, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and all kinds of other stuff. Crash Course World History is now available on DVD! Visit http://dft.ba/-CCWHDVD to buy a set for your home or classroom. Follow us! http://www.twitter.com/thecrashcourse http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen http://www.twitter.com/crashcoursestan http://www.twitter.com/raoulmeyer http://www.twitter.com/thoughtbubbler
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Hey! Anyone here from America who really hates their country's political system?
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Ummm MALCOM X hmmm... HMMM?!?!
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Thank you so much for these awesome videos! Have you considered, or previously discussed, issues in regard to First Nation people or Native American genocide in America? I'm pursuing a degree in History with a certificate in Public History and I notice in my University here in South Dakota that the issue isn't very deeply addressed or dissected.
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I use these videos for my college courses and they help so very much
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Thankfully, the US is not a segregated country anymore. We truly live in an age of equal opportunity for all.
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We took the flag down! Let's go SC!
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"In your face John C Calhoun" lmao
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This is very helpful. :)
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8:18 bus number is 1337 i see what you id there.
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You should do the Bill Of Rights
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I don't really black kids were really effected by segregation. There was alot of blacks that didn't care for integrating with whites that dont want them around. MLK wasn't the only person that had opinions on race. Alot of black people followed Malcom x cause he gave pride to blacks that only think being accepted by Europeans is healthy. Personally i think fighting for civil rights was a wast of time cause blacks are still govern and control by white folks. We have a black president but he is a puppet for racists. I believe fighting for black liberation would have been better cause we would have our own land and resources also weapons to protect ourselves.
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Didn't the Soviets complain to the United Nations about segregation schools?
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UGLY NIGGERS!!!
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Wait a minute Martin Luther King is one of the assassinated civil rights leaders!!!
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You forgot Georgia.
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Hey they talk about my town
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John Green has a small wang.
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I HATE KRAKKKERS!
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"when we look back on it with NOSTALGIA, but there were CRITICS"
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what up
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