Textbook is as follows: Foner, E., Give Me Liberty: An American History, 4th Edition, W. W. Norton & Company.

Using the textbook and the following resources, trace the development of the Civil Rights Movement from the Brown v. Board decision to the Black Power Movement. Make sure to present a thesis at the beginning of your essay:

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/civil-rights-movement/essays/civil-rights-movement-major-events-and-legacies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power

Address the following questions in your essay:

• What various strategies were adopted by civil rights leaders?
• How did civil rights activists bring the movement to national attention?
• Why was the federal government reluctant to fully support the movement?
• What role did the federal government eventually play in the movement?
• What successes were achieved?
• Why did the movement eventually lose momentum?

Essay should be minimum of 700 words. Use MLA style for use of sources and citations.