Thesis: Because they focused on correcting legal discrimination instead of social discrimination, African Americans gained greater equality during the 1960s through the efforts of the NAACP and civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
- Introduction—discuss the history of segregation and discrimination before the Modern Civil Rights Movement.
- Define terms—Modern Civil Rights Movement, legal segregation and discrimination, social segregation and discrimination, and
- Jim Crow laws and other ways that segregation and discrimination were written into laws
- Discuss previous efforts by early civil rights leaders including Booker T. ...