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1 day ago · The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
5 days ago · American civil rights movement, mass protest against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern U.S. that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. Its roots were in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to abolish slavery and resist racial oppression.
2 days ago · The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"). The Confederacy had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery ...
1 day ago · Nadir of Americanrace relations. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. [1] Such laws remained in force until 1965. [2]
May 12, 2024 · “Civil War,” the new film about a near-future United States torn apart by warfare between armed factions and an authoritarian government, has been a box-office hit. But the film, and others ...
May 27, 2024 · HistoryNet - The Abolitionist Movement: Resistance to Slavery From the Colonial Era to the Civil War The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition - Abolitionism Timeline
2 days ago · Thus, for example, Tolstoyan and Gandhism nonviolence is both a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence, but at the same time it sees nonviolent action (also called civil resistance) as an alternative to passive acceptance of oppression or armed struggle against it.
