Segregation and the 1960s and 1970s

By 1962 most student integration campaigns in the deep south have been crushed by intensified police repression and clan terrorism. By 1963, the movement had exploded from a few students engaging in civil disobedience to a nationwide mass movement. The militant black radicals following the lead of players like Malcolm X were gaining ground as the southern movement behind Martin Luther King Jr seemed to have no really good answers to the continued brutality of the south. Black consciousness was going global and many black Americans were beginning to join the Harlem intellectuals in seeing their struggle in global terms.