Crash Course Civil Rights and the 1950s

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1. As late as the 1990s, nearly 90 percent of suburban whites lived in communities with non-
white ! populations less than 1 percent. 
 
2. In the 1950s half of black families lived in poverty. 
 
3. Sociological research shows that segregation itself is psychologically damaging to black 
children because they recognize that being separated out is a badge of inferiority. 
 
 4. “Massive Resistance” in the South got so massive that a number of counties, rather than 
integrate their schools, closed them. 
 
 5. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division (not the entirety of it, but some of it) to Little 
Rock, Arkansas, to walk kids to school. 
 
 6. What is one thing described in this video that you already knew? 
That black churches played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. 
 
 7. What is one thing that you DIDN’T already know? 
I didn’t know that in the 1950s half of black families lived in poverty.