Part one of term paper
Returning from the second world war, black Americans, just as those three decades prior, expected to find America a land of equality for all people and specifically a land endowed with increased black civil rights. Although the late 1940's and 1950's are not generally considered a period social advancement for blacks due to the volatili ...

Part two of term paper
... lives in the segregated south of social injustice and inequity as well as a clear disadvantage in attaining upward financial mobility in a region firmly dedicated to preserving the white status quo. Bound by rigid Jim Crow laws, the black view of life appeared bleak. Nonetheless, a period of increasing black civil rights was already underway. Paving the way for the entire revolution was Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson, the first black American to play major league baseball. Blacks had cr ...