The Civil Rights Movement

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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 ● Civil Rights Act (1964) ● They continued to endure the devastating effects of racism, especially in the south Most important breakthrought in equal rights legisaltion ● ➜ The movement was mostly nonviolent and resulted in laws to protect every American right, regardless of color, race, sex, and nationality ● Gave black people legal equality: 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 Voting Right Act (1965) The Fair Housing Act (1968) 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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