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What was the Civil Rights Movement? ● ● ● Historical Background Roots in effort of African slaves to resist racial oppression and abolish slavery Slavery abpolished but not equality ● Racial segregation ● Consequences ● The Civil Rights Movement mass protest against apartheid and discrimination in the 1950s & 1960s Black Americans wanted to gain equal rights under the law in the United States The Civil War had officially abolished slavery in 1865⇒but not the end of discrimination against black people ● They continued to endure the devastating effects of racism, especially in the south Most important breakthrought in equal rights legisaltion ● Most of those movements were led by: A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) Adam Clayton Powell (1908-1972) Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) Malcolm X (1925-1965) The Little Rock Nine Gave black people legal equality: Civil Rights Act (1964) Voting Right Act (1965) The Fair Housing Act (1968) The movement was mostly nonviolent and resulted in laws to protect every American right, regardless of color, race, sex, and nationality Exampels: August 28, 1955 Emmett Till a 14 year old from Chicago was brutally murderd in Mississippi for flirting with a white woman. His murderes are acquitted December 1, 1955 ● Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man. She was arrested for civil disobediece

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What was the Civil Rights Movement? ● ● ● Historical Background Roots in effort of African slaves to resist racial oppression and abolish slavery Slavery abpolished but not equality ● Racial segregation ● Consequences ● The Civil Rights Movement mass protest against apartheid and discrimination in the 1950s & 1960s Black Americans wanted to gain equal rights under the law in the United States The Civil War had officially abolished slavery in 1865⇒but not the end of discrimination against black people ● They continued to endure the devastating effects of racism, especially in the south Most important breakthrought in equal rights legisaltion ● Most of those movements were led by: A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) Adam Clayton Powell (1908-1972) Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) Malcolm X (1925-1965) The Little Rock Nine Gave black people legal equality: Civil Rights Act (1964) Voting Right Act (1965) The Fair Housing Act (1968) The movement was mostly nonviolent and resulted in laws to protect every American right, regardless of color, race, sex, and nationality Exampels: August 28, 1955 Emmett Till a 14 year old from Chicago was brutally murderd in Mississippi for flirting with a white woman. His murderes are acquitted December 1, 1955 ● Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man. She was arrested for civil disobediece

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