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Hand-drawn comic linking Freedom Summer schools, Selma marchers, and federal voter registration enforcement in 1964 and 1965.

Freedom Summer, Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Trace Freedom Summer, Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Compare registration, poll taxes and preclearance with CLEP History II practice.

Hand-drawn March on Washington crowd beside three doors representing Civil Rights Act protections for public accommodations, federally funded education, and employment.

The March on Washington and Civil Rights Act of 1964

Study the March on Washington and Civil Rights Act of 1964. Compare Titles II, VI and VII, coalition demands and CLEP History II practice.

Hand-drawn civil-rights students at a lunch counter, nonviolence training, interracial Freedom Riders boarding a bus, and Birmingham demonstrations shown on television.

Sit-Ins, SNCC, Freedom Rides and Birmingham

Hand-drawn Montgomery boycott organizers coordinating carpools, leaflets, donations, and telephone dispatch alongside Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and a citizenship class.

Montgomery Bus Boycott, King and the SCLC

Hand-drawn Little Rock students entering Central High under federal escort, with paper-chain scenes connecting family litigation, court orders, state obstruction, and federal enforcement.

Massive Resistance and Little Rock: Orders, Closures and Enforcement

Hand-drawn families and attorneys assembling a school-desegregation case file, Kenneth and Mamie Clark observing a child with two dolls, and a path toward the Supreme Court.

Brown v. Board, the Clark Studies and the Legal Campaign

Hand-drawn Sputnik satellite, science teacher and student with a prism, school bus traveling along a pencil, community college commuter, and researchers comparing educational opportunity.

Postwar Education Reform: Sputnik, NDEA and the Coleman Report

Hand-drawn research notebook and magnifier showing vaccine evidence, voluntary consent, independent review, public fundraising, a woman pilot, and science communication.

Public Health, Medical Ethics and Postwar Science

Hand-drawn vinyl-record street connecting religious gatherings, Black musicians and a recording studio, Beat poetry, a playwright, jazz, and readers discussing postwar culture.

Religious Revival, Rock and Roll, the Beats and Cultural Dissent

Hand-drawn cutaway television cabinet showing a family audience, studio cameras, commercial sponsors, film editors, a broadcast license, and an artist reworking consumer imagery.

Television, Advertising, Consumerism and Mass Culture

Hand-drawn conveyor belt becoming a labor bargaining table, with industrial workers, mechanized farming, dockworkers, and expanding health, education, postal, and office jobs.

Postwar Growth, Organized Labor, Automation and the Service Economy

Hand-drawn open suitcase connecting farms and older industrial cities to Sunbelt skylines, highways, air travel, jobs, moving families, and retirees.

The Sunbelt, Internal Migration and Demographic Change