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Civil Rights and social Protests - Coggle Diagram
Civil Rights and social Protests
USA
Jim Crow Laws
were state and local laws in the United States, enacted by white state legislatures, which were dominated by Democrats
Segregation
systemic separation of different racial groups
Ku Klux Klan
purpose of defending white supremacy
Direct Action
originated as a political activist term for economic and political acts in which the actors use their power to directly reach certain goals of interest.
Rosa Parks
The girl who refused to give up his seat to a white man on a bus in the city of Montgomery, in the segregated state of Alabama.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
Freedom Riders
wanted peace and freedom
Legal action
South Africa
Legal Action
religious personal law
Malcom X
American activist. He was an advocate for the rights of African-Americans.
Nelson Mandela
president, defender of freedom
Apartheid
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Sharpeville
anti-government demonstration
Passes
system of racial segregation, laws that stripped the majority black population of multiple rights
Bantustans
example of the racial segregation
Freedom Charter
pass laws, designed to segregate the population, manage urbanization, and allocate migrant labor.
Treason Trial
They were charged with high treason and conspiracy on a national scale.
MK
designed to give all South Africans equal rights.
ANC
grant voting rights to black and mixed-race Africans
Rivonia Trial
12 members of the African National Congress (ANC) were accused under the 1962 Sabotage Act, crimes that carried the death penalty.
was the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress (ANC), and was founded by Nelson Mandela