Second American Revolution

The Second American Revolution, also known as the Black Revolution and the Civil Rights Revolution, was an armed uprising and social revolution of civil rights, Black Power, and socialist organizations against the federal government of the United States (US) from 1968-1978. The revolution emerged as a reaction to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and rising opposition to imperialism and the Vietnam War. While initially peaceful, the uprisings evolved into a violent rebellion after the Battle of Chicago between the FBI and the Black Panther Party (BPP). After a decade of social upheaval, Washington, DC fell to the revolutionaries and the federal government disintegrated shortly thereafter. The US was subsequently dissolved and the United Soviet States of America (USSA) was born in its place.
In the years prior to the Second American Revolution, socioeconomic tensions in the United States were on the rise. As the Cold War raged on, the civil rights movement rose to prominence as an internal threat to the discriminatory legal system of the US that subjugated African-Americans. The civil rights movement saw multiracial support as it rose, with many impoverished White Americans realizing that challenging the established political order could help them get out of poverty. Other racial minorities, such as Hispanic and Asian Americans, took the opportunity to fight against repression against their own groups. The civil rights movement was largely nonviolent, and often overlapped with opposition to the Vietnam War. One major civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., was also opposed to the Vietnam War and an active critic of capitalism. The Black Power movement arose as an outgrowth of the civil rights movement, backed by Malcolm X. The FBI attempted to silence the civil rights, Black Power, and anti-Vietnam War movements. An assassination was attempted on Malcolm X in 1965, however failed. An assassination was successful against Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, triggering a revolutionary response by other civil rights and Black Power leaders.
After a decade of violence in the Second American Revolution, Washington, DC was captured by the revolutionaries and the United States began to disintegrate. The federal government collapsed and the political system of the US ceased to function. The last President of the United States (POTUS), Jimmy Carter, was captured and executed shortly afterwards and the United States of America (USA) was dissolved. The United Soviet States of America was formed in its place as a socialist state, however anti-Communist insurgents continued to operate under the leadership of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) for several months. The revolution also triggered the end of the Cold War altogether and contributed to the hastened fall of South Vietnam and end of the Vietnam War. Within the following years, South Korea eventually collapsed without American support and Korea was unified under the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
== Prelude ==
=== Civil rights movement ===
==== Civil rights background ====
African-Americans had long been treated as second-class citizens in the United States, having formerly been enslaved and later free but impoverished. Many African-Americans were lynched by White supremacist organizations such as the KKK and were murdered in race massacres. In World War I, African-Americans volunteered to fight for the United States Armed Forces with the hope of gaining love and respect. However, when they returned to the US as veterans, they continued to face massive disrespect and be harassed by police officers.
In 1941, the Axis Powers ambushed the United States by attacking the United States Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The US responded by declaring war on the Axis and joining the United Nations (UN) with the United Kingdom (UK) and the Soviet Union (USSR). Just a year later, in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt legally put and end to the de facto contiuation of chattel slavery that had existed through the sharecropping and debt peonage system. This victory set the condititons for further civil rights victories in the African-American community.
==== Bus boycotts ====
After World War II, African-Americans began to push further for their civil rights in the US. The start of the Cold War between the US and the USSR only emboldened people to protest against the federal government. In 1954, the Women's Political Council (WPC) and the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) organized the Montgomery bus boycott to protest Jim Crow segregation in public transporation in Alabama. The boycott was led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. The NAACP was inspired to launch a similar bus boycott in Tallahassee, Florida two years later.
==== Brown v. Board of Education ====
The first major victory for the revived civil rights movement came on May 17, 1954 when the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that Jim Crow segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. This decision overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that made segregation constitutional under the erroneous principle of "seperate of illegal." With the constitutional protection on Jim Crow segregation removed, the civil rights movement jumped on the opportunity to make more gains for the African-American community.
==== Rising tensions from 1956-1957 ====
Socioeconomic tensions in the US only rose after the SCOTUS ruling, however. A showdown happened between African-American and White students in the Mansfield Independent School District of Mansfield, Texas on August 30, 1956. A year later, on May 17, 1957, Martin Luther King, Jr. worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the NAACP to organize the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom protest in Washington, DC. On June 23, 1957, a group of African-Americans launched a sit-in protest at a segregated parlor in Durham, North Carolina. Another incident occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas when the State of Arkansas tried to forcefully prevent a group of nine African-American students from going to a White-only school, forcing the NAACP to organize an armed escort for the students.
==== Desegregation of the medical industry ====
In 1958, African-American students worked with the NAACP to protest segregation in the medical industry. The first protest was a sit-in occurred at the Dockum Drug Store in Wichita, Kansas from July 19, 1958 to August 11, 1958. 40 African-American students participated in the 23-day-long protest. The Dockum Drug Store agreed to serve them in the end, justifying their desegration by citing the immense loss of revenue for their business caused by the sit-in. The second protest was a sit-in that occurred at the Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City on August 19, 1958. The sit-in was led by NAACP member Clara Luper, and ended after one of the drug store employees agreed to serve them.