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по Keanna Albright 2 дней назад

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Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s)

The mid-20th century saw significant strides in the fight for civil rights in the United States. Landmark Supreme Court decisions, such as Brown v. Board of Education, played a crucial role in ending racial segregation in public schools.

Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s)

Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s)

Minority movement

Chicago movement civil rights for mexican americans
Femenist movement - civil rights for women equal pay birth control right to divorce
American Indian Movement - AIM took over alcatraz island

Civil rights oppertunities

Strom Thermand - senator of south carolina that filibustered civil rights act
Orval Fabus - governer of Arkansas and refused to let student in little rock
Bull Conner - racist policeman that beat Marchuise in Selma alabama

Civil rights advocates

Rosa Parks - bus sit in Montgomery AL Led the Montgomery bus boycott
Thurgood Marshall - Black supreme court Justice,
Malcolm X - by any means necessary alternative to MLK murdered in harlem

Civil and voting rights law

Civil Rights Act of 1968 - prevented discrimination in housing
Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Outlawed the banning of voting based on race, income, or literacy test
Civil Rights act 1964- outlawed segregation

Significant events

Highlander Folk school - Mont Eagle Tennessee school for civil rights leaders
Asassination of MLK Jr. - James Earl Ray
Birmingham bombings in the 1963 - 4 little girls killed in a church
March on Washington DC - I have a dream
Morches, demonstrations, boycotts, and sit ins - Lunch counter that desegregates
Tent city of Fayette county TN - protesting government and eviction for voting
Freedom Riders - Fights against descrimination starting to ride all buses to stop segregation. Met by violent mobs who burned buses
Intergration of central high school in little rock - Blew up Clinton High school with dynamite nation gard came in governer refused to desegregate
integration of clinton high school in TN - First school desegregated blew up Clinton High school with dynamite
Montgomery bus boycott - Rosa Parks led by MLK major turning point for civil rights

Brown V. The Board of Education

Impact - Desegregated public schools overturned plessy V. Ferguson -separate but equal
Decision - 1954 9-0 it was unanimous