Civil Rights Movement

As discussed in class, we think of the Civil Rights Movement taking place during the 1960s... However, many important events helped shape the early days of the movement during the 1950s. In class, you learned from your peers about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the murder of Emmett Till, Brown vs. the Board of Education, the Little Rock Nine, the Greensboro/Woolsworth's Lunch Counter Sit-ins, and the struggles Lorraine Hansbury and her family faced (which led to her writing of Raisin in the Sun). Which of these events (or another that you are aware of) do you feel is most significant in terms of the Civil Rights Movement? Why? How did these early events help shape what happened nationwide in the 1960s? What else was going on in America at the time that factors in? What are the effects that still resonate today? What else, if anything, still needs to be done in society to create equality (whether racial or otherwise)?