The Civil Rights Movement

Aaron Bowman

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The Civil Rights Movement, also known as the American Civil Rights Movement is a term that encompasses the strategies, groups, and social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution.

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Aaron Bowman

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The Civil Rights Movement, also known as the American Civil Rights Movement is a term that encompasses the strategies, groups, and social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution.

Civil Rights Movement - Black History - History
Find out more about the history of Civil Rights Movement, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on History.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
American civil rights movement | Definition, Events, History, & Facts | Britannica.com
American civil rights movement: American civil rights movement, mid-20th-century mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the United States.
https://www.britannica.com/event/American-civil-rights-movement
Civil Rights Movement | Black History & Culture | PBS
Be inspired by the events and people that influenced the African American Civil Rights Movement with this special collection from PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/civil-rights-movement/
The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
History by Era: Civil Rights Movement
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/civil-rights-movement/essays/civil-rights-movement-major-events-and-legacies
The Civil Rights Movement: 1919-1960s, Freedom's Story
When most Americans think of the Civil Rights Movement, they have in mind a span of time beginning with the 1954 Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed segregated education, or the Montgomery Bus Boycott and culminated in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm.htm
History of the Civil Rights Movement - YouTube
History of the Civil Rights Movement Beginning with the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865, African Americans toiled to reach equal status in the eyes of the ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxwe6LPvkM
The Civil Rights Movement
At the midpoint of the twentieth century, African Americans once again answered the call to transform the world.
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-civil-rights.html
Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1960 to 1964
This civil rights movement timeline covers the struggle's second phase in which nonviolent action was put to the test during the early 1960s.
https://www.thoughtco.com/civil-rights-movement-timeline-45361
Civil Rights Movement: An Overview | Scholastic
Gives an overview of the Civil Rights Movement, then the Brown decision, the challenge to social segregation, voting rights, black power, and the movement's legacy.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/civil-rights-movement-overview/
Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s came about out of the need and desire for equality and freedom for African Americans and other people of color.
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/civil-rights-movement
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1954–1968)

Civil rights movement
The 1963 March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial
Date	May 17, 1954 – April 11, 1968^[a]
Location	United States
Caused by	Racism racial segregation disenfranchisement Jim Crow laws socioeconomic inequality
Methods	Nonviolence nonviolent resistance civil disobedience
Resulted in	Rulings by federal judiciary: "Separate but equal" doctrine overturned by Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Bus segregation ruled unconstitutional by Browder v. Gayle (1956) Anti-miscegenation laws ruled unconstitutional by McLaughlin v. Florida (1964) Interracial marriages legalized by Loving v. Virginia (1967) Passage of federal laws: Civil Rights Act of 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1960 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act) Ratification of the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution (1964) Formation of federal agencies: US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (1957) US Commission on Civil Rights (1957) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1965) Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (1968)

Source : Wikipedia under CC-BY-SA license

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Civil Rights Movement - Black History - History
Find out more about the history of Civil Rights Movement, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on History.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
American civil rights movement | Definition, Events, History, & Facts | Britannica.com
American civil rights movement: American civil rights movement, mid-20th-century mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the United States.
https://www.britannica.com/event/American-civil-rights-movement
Civil Rights Movement | Black History & Culture | PBS
Be inspired by the events and people that influenced the African American Civil Rights Movement with this special collection from PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/civil-rights-movement/
The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
History by Era: Civil Rights Movement
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/civil-rights-movement/essays/civil-rights-movement-major-events-and-legacies
The Civil Rights Movement: 1919-1960s, Freedom's Story
When most Americans think of the Civil Rights Movement, they have in mind a span of time beginning with the 1954 Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed segregated education, or the Montgomery Bus Boycott and culminated in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm.htm
History of the Civil Rights Movement - YouTube
History of the Civil Rights Movement Beginning with the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865, African Americans toiled to reach equal status in the eyes of the ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxwe6LPvkM
The Civil Rights Movement
At the midpoint of the twentieth century, African Americans once again answered the call to transform the world.
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-civil-rights.html
Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1960 to 1964
This civil rights movement timeline covers the struggle's second phase in which nonviolent action was put to the test during the early 1960s.
https://www.thoughtco.com/civil-rights-movement-timeline-45361
Civil Rights Movement: An Overview | Scholastic
Gives an overview of the Civil Rights Movement, then the Brown decision, the challenge to social segregation, voting rights, black power, and the movement's legacy.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/civil-rights-movement-overview/
Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s came about out of the need and desire for equality and freedom for African Americans and other people of color.
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/civil-rights-movement
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1954–1968)

Civil rights movement
The 1963 March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial
Date	May 17, 1954 – April 11, 1968^[a]
Location	United States
Caused by	Racism racial segregation disenfranchisement Jim Crow laws socioeconomic inequality
Methods	Nonviolence nonviolent resistance civil disobedience
Resulted in	Rulings by federal judiciary: "Separate but equal" doctrine overturned by Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Bus segregation ruled unconstitutional by Browder v. Gayle (1956) Anti-miscegenation laws ruled unconstitutional by McLaughlin v. Florida (1964) Interracial marriages legalized by Loving v. Virginia (1967) Passage of federal laws: Civil Rights Act of 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1960 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act) Ratification of the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution (1964) Formation of federal agencies: US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (1957) US Commission on Civil Rights (1957) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1965) Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (1968)

Source : Wikipedia under CC-BY-SA license

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