How Important Was the Role of African Americans Themselves in Achieving Political and Civil Equality for African Americans in the USA Between 1945 and 1965?

Although America claims to be the 'land of the free' and offer equal opportunities to all, there has always been racial prejudice and discrimination to people who are not of WASP (White, Anglo-Saxon, protestant) origin. Whether it has been discrimination by de jure of de facto nobody can question that it existed and still exists to a lesser extent today.
<Tab/>As a result of the many social changes brought about by the war, such as economic prosperity, campaigning by black activists for equal rights took a new direction. Civil Rights for African Americans improved between 194…