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Civil Rights |
Civil rights are the rights that everybody should be given. The Civil Rights Movement got started because African Americans were not being given the same rights as everybody else. |
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Desegregation |
Meant that people could no longer be separated because of their race. Desegregation first happened in schools following the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954. All public places were officially desegregated when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. Segregation had been a loophole in some areas to avoid following the 14th Amendment, which guaranteed equal rights to all. Places that were segregated said that they were treating people equally but they were just separating them. It was not equal. Desegregation ended the separate but equal Jim Crow laws. |
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Nonviolent protest |
The whole Civil Rights Movement was based on the idea of non-violence. they would sit in at White only restaurants and refused to leave until they were served they protested peacefully in the streets with signs they boycotted buses in Montgomery Alabama that idea was to create sympathy and it worked in many cases while they were peacefully protesting they were arrested or even attacked by the police when the pictures and video showed up on the news people around the country became more aware of the racism that was still a major problem in many areas of the country. |
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Montgomery bus boycott |
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus this got her arrested because it was against the local law the blacks in Montgomery decided to boycott (not use) the buses until the law was changed after many months of boycotting they finally won the right to equal sitting on the buses the boycott was effective because there were so many blacks that used the buses this meant a major loss of money for those running the buses this is one of the first protest that Martin Luther King jr. helped organize. |
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Brown v. Board of education |
This was a famous court case that made segregation in schools illegal Linda Browns family filed a lawsuit against the Topeka Kansas Board of Education because their daughter was not allowed to go to the white only elementary school near their house Thurgood Marshall won the court case for the Brown family which kick-started his impressive career while the court made segregation in schools illegal it took many years for the new law to be fully enforced in some states which is why the story of Ruby Bridges took place in the early 1960s several years later |
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March on Washington |
In 1963 more than 200,000 people went to Washington DC to protest the unfair race Falls in our country Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous I Have a Dream speech to one of the largest protest crowds in Washington's history by meeting in the nation's capital they made sure that the president and congressmen were well aware of what they wanted change the protest was very successful as evidence by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Acts of 1965 and the passing of the 24th Amendment which all passed within two years of the protest |
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Civil rights act |
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made the Jim Crow laws illegal and ended segregation in all public places President John F Kennedy first pushed to get the law passed in 1963 the law passed a year later officially ending many unfair race laws. |
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24th amendment |
The 24th Amendment made poll taxes illegal in many areas poll taxes were used to keep people from voting basically people had to pay to vote many Africans Americans were not able to make much money because of all the unfair laws and could not afford to vote as a result |
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Voting rights act |
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 set of two major purposes first ended literacy tests which are used to keep people who couldn't read from voting most people nowadays can read so this seems like a silly law but because of all the Discrimination many blacks did not get a very good education and many older black still could not read the second thing that it did was allow the federal government to go into communities were less than 50% of the blacks are registered to vote and take over the voting registration in some areas even the laws have changed local communities were still not allowing blacks to vote |
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Thurgood Marshall |
He got his start by winning the Brown versus Board of Education court case which made segregation in schools illegal he worked toward equality for the African Americans throughout his life and in 1971 he became the first African-American chosen to serve on the Supreme Court |
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Rosa parks |
She is well known for being arrested and thrown in jail for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus in Montgomery Alabama she was not the only black person to get arrested for disobeying the full but she is remembered because it was after her arrest at the Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized |
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Martin luther king jr |
Most people recognize MLK for his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement many people were working towards civil rights for blacks but his advances on nonviolent protest was very successful he was also a very effective public speaker is most well known for his famous I Have a Dream speech that he gave two more than 200,000 people at the March on Washington in 1963 he was assassinated in 1968 which is the year that the Civil Rights Movement is usually considered to have ended all his assassination didn't in by itself the movement slowed down after all the laws changed in the mid-1960s there wasn't quite as much to work for while there were still some unfair policies they were lesser known and most people felt the Civil Rights Movement had accomplished what it set out to do and addition some of MLK's followers turn to more aggressive groups such as the Black Panthers after his murder groups that use violence to try to accomplish their goals were not nearly as successful |
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John F Kennedy |
was elected president in 1960 and became one of the most important supporters of the Civil Rights Movement he first coach to get the Civil Rights Act passed in 1963 only a few months later he was assassinated there so many conspiracy theories surrounding his death because Lee Harvey Oswald the guy accused of his murder was also murdered a couple of days later as a result the whole story of why Kennedy was assassinated is debated his work with the Civil Rights Movement is not usually considered the reason people think he was assassinated but did unpopular with racist and popular among African-Americans his assassination was the first of three major assassinations in America during the crazy 1960s |
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Robert F Kennedy |
He was the brother to JFK and was a Senator at the time of his assassination in 1968 he was a strong supporter of the Civil Rights Movement and was running for president when he was killed while he was a big supporter of civil rights and is even well remembered for the speech he gave the night of Martin Luther King's death the reason for his assassination was not because of his involvement in civil rights his death was the third assassination of a major political figure during the 1960's. The political assassinations just added to the chaos of the hippie movement civil rights protest and Vietnam protest the nineteen-sixties where a crazy time mini wanted to use peace to bring change and others try to use violence |
