How successful was the post war civil rights movement up to 1965?

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How successful was the post war civil rights movement up to 1965?

There were many themes that ran through the American civil rights movement up to and including 1965. There was feeling that the USA was being hypocritical after the war as they were fighting racism abroad but they were still a country of double standards. There was organised and united, peaceful, non-violent protest, practiced and preached by doctor Martin Luther King, small groups were causing changes, there was the use of new forms of media [i.e. television] to bring pictures of violence into peoples home, there was the use of direct action for example against restaurants during the sit-ins of 1960. The use of legal action was also a common theme, as were state versus federal confrontations. Many of these victories were seemingly trivial but they all caused greater change.

America was seen to be hypocritical after the Second World War. Part of the reason the war was fought was to end the persecution of the Jews in Germany, however Negroes were being persecuted in America. The Double V campaign was a campaign for a victory over persecution abroad and a victory over persecution in the