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Civil Rights and social Protests - Coggle Diagram
Civil Rights and social Protests
USA
Jim Crow Laws
Were laws that forced segregation
Ku Klux Klan
white supremacist group
Maintain white supremacy over black people
Segregation
They divided blacks and whites in separated areas, for everything.
Eg: restrooms, clinics and schools
Legal action
Decitions were made by court
Direct action
Rosa Parks
Black woman refused to gave up her seat to a white man
She was arrested and fined $10.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
link to www.google.com
Sit-ins
Freedom Riders
To proterst segregated bus terminals
Malcom X
Organizer and helped to raise the profile of the Nation of Islam
Black Power
Black people taking responsability for their own lives and rejecting white help
South Africa
Apartheid
System of legislation that defended segregationist polices
Passes
Black women would also have to carry passes
Bantustans
Was a territory for blacks designated by the white-dominated government
Freedom Charter
Non-racial and democratic government with equality for all
Treason Trial
Trial in which 156 people, were arrested in a raid and accused of treason in South Africa
ANC
A social-democratic political party in South Africa
MK
Is the paramilitary wing of the ANC
Rivonia Trial
A trial against Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the ANC
Nelson Mandela
Was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa
Sharpeville
Police officers opened fire on a group of people protesting oppressive pass laws, killing 69.
Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
