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Opposition to civil rights in the USA, 1954–65

The desegregation of US schools provoked strong opposition from white Southerners. Mark Rathbone examines whose resistance was the most effective — the subtle moderates or the extreme ‘massive resisters’?

A group of the first African-American students to be admitted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, leaving school under military escort in 1957
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AQA AS The campaign for African-American civil rights in the USA, 1950–1968

Edexcel AS Pursuing life and liberty: equality in the USA 1945–68

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