作者：Keanna Albright 2 天以前
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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.
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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
