In contrast to Langguth's rebuilding approach, Levine contends that African Americans were denied their rights through local political manoeuvres.
How did the African American struggle for civil rights?
- The post-war era saw a surge in activism against the nation's widespread practise of treating African Americans like second-class citizens.
- Resistance to racial segregation was chronicled by newspaper, radio, and television reporters and cameramen as they covered the fight to end racial injustice and discrimination gained national attention through tactics like civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, "freedom rides," and rallies.
- The Brown decision in 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped put an end to the complex network of laws that kept blacks as second-class citizens, which was the crowning achievement of these efforts.
- Blacks and their white friends continued to fight for equal rights in every aspect of American society a century after the Civil War.
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