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The civil rights movement
where:
in the USA (started in the States of the South)
when:
in the 1950s and 1960s
what:
organised protest by black Americans to obtain equal rights under the law
how:
through non-violent protest and civil disobedience
Principal events
1955:
Montgomery, Rosa Park's
protest and bus boycottage,
1963:
the March on Washington
1965:
the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the police's attack
1968:
the shooting of M.L. King
changes/goals achieved
1956:
buses were desegregated
1965:
the Voting Rights Act
1968:
the Civil Rights Act
the life of M.L.King
He believed in peaceful protest and non.violent disobedience and organised marches and sit.ins
born in 1929
on 4th April 1968 he was assassinated in Memphis
he was a priest and
a politician
In 1964 he received the Nobel Prize for Peace