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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.
May 29, 2024 · 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.
4 days ago · Jim Crow Laws During Reconstruction, Black people took on leadership roles like never before. They held public office and sought legislative changes for equality and the right to vote.In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution gave Black people equal protection under the law. In 1870, the 15th...
May 30, 2024 · Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements focuses on unearthing and digitizing the histories of civil rights activism by the everyday citizens of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities.
- Jennifer Dorner
- 2014
May 24, 2024 · Great Migration, in U.S. history, the widespread migration of African Americans in the 20th century from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West. It is estimated that from 1916 to 1970 some six million black Southerners relocated as part of the Great Migration.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban ar...
- Many African Americans in the South found themselves trapped in sharecropping jobs and other forms of debt peonage with no hope of improvement in t...
- The greater economic and educational opportunities led to an explosion of artistic expression in music and literature. Migrants and their children...
4 days ago · Early civil rights movement Main article: Civil rights movement (1896–1954) In response to these and other setbacks, in the summer of 1905, W. E. B. Du Bois and 28 other prominent, African-American men met secretly at Niagara Falls, Ontario .
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May 16, 2024 · The civil rights movement deeply affected American society. Among its most important achievements were two major civil rights laws passed by Congress. These laws ensured constitutional rights for African Americans and other minorities.
