The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement 1940s-1950s
The Civil Rights Movement 1960s
Other Civil Rights Movements
Youth Culture
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NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People continues to help African Americans
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Many people did not support the overturning of Brown VS Board of Education and protested integration of students, for example Little Rock Central High School where the national guard had to come escort "the Little Rock nine" in
Brown VS Board of Education NAACP lawyers led by Thurgood Marshall argued that segregated school was unconstitutional as it violated the 14th amendment's guarantee of equal protection and was overturned
Martin Luther King Jr created more non-violent protests and organizations such as the SCLC
Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott begins when Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person on the bus and is arrested
Committee on Civil Rights in 1946 created by President Harry S. Truman to strengthen civil rights in the division of Justice Branch
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College students in Greensboro, NC 1960 started the sit-in movement to non-violently protest by sitting in segregated areas
Young activists such as John Lewis organized the SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to promote voting rights and end segregation
Assassination of MLK Jr. Lorraine Hotel shot fatally in Memphis, Tennessee
March on Washington 1963 in Washington DC where MLK Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from jail about the issue of waiting for justice and God given rights for African Americans
Black Panthers were a group of African Americans founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community, although their methods were controversial due to alleged violence and murders
Malcom X was another black civil rights leader, he created the raised fist as a symbol of black power, although his methods of violence were often criticized
March to Montgomery was an effort to register Black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were confronted with deadly violence from local authorities and white vigilante groups
NOW National Organization for Women Founded in 1966 to promote equal rights for women by women/feminists over issues such as reproductive care
Equal pay act of 1963 to prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
Asian Americans during this time similarly fought for their rights with their own movement of "Yellow Power" especially against discrimination faced during Pacific war where they were put into camps
The gay liberation movement was a social and political movement to counter societal shame and repression/homophobia
The sexual revolution in the 1960s United States was a social and cultural movement that changed attitudes toward sex and morality to be more laidback. For example, sex became more commonly discussed in society with things such as erotic media, ie. films magazines, and books and reproductive/sexual products/healthcare/access.
The Weatherman? Counterculture movement whose followers were/are commonly known as hippies, was a movement that opposed war in Vietnam, commercialism, and societal norms, and often used LSD, weed, and psychedelic rock music.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a large and one of the most influential radical student organization of 1960s. They fought for civil rights such as equality, economic justice, peace, and participatory democracy