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- African American mass demonstrations, televised racial violence, and the federally enforced desegregation of higher education institutions, as well as the black passive resistance movement of the early 1960s led to adoption of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Feb 19, 2021 · The SNCC uses more radical and public tactics to protest for Black civil rights than other committees, helping to coordinate many successful, highly visible movements including the Freedom Rides in 1961. May 6: President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law.
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Oct 27, 2009 · The civil rights movement was a struggle for justice and equality for African Americans that took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. Among its leaders were Martin Luther...
Individuals like Malcolm X persuaded many with their support of black separatism, while others advocated an armed struggle against oppression. In 1963 and 1964, a coalition of civil rights organizations in Mississippi launched Freedom Summer, a project to register black voters and promote voting rights.
- July 26, 1948: President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services.
- May 17, 1954: Brown v. Board of Education, a consolidation of five cases into one, is decided by the Supreme Court, effectively ending racial segregation in public schools.
- August 28, 1955: Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His murderers are acquitted, and the case bring international attention to the civil rights movement after Jet magazine publishes a photo of Till’s beaten body at his open-casket funeral.
- December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Her defiant stance prompts a year-long Montgomery bus boycott.
Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite” is a multi-part, music composition depicting African American history from slavery to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The world premiere took place on January 15, 1961, at a benefit for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
The 1960's, like the 1920's before it, represented a wave of high activity in the African American political movement. Most think of the 60’s as the most turbulent period in American history. Some call it the unfinished Black Revolution.
