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  1. Nov 25, 2020 · In response, a growing movement of young Native Americans sought to reclaim their sovereignty through what they called the Red Power movement.

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  3. Oct 26, 2020 · Bettman via Getty Images. The first of the “silent sentinel” protests occurred on January 10, 1917. Twelve women, fighting for their right to vote, stood peacefully before the White House...

  4. Apr 12, 2016 · Reconstruction and Repression, 1865-1900. In 1865, following the Civil War, southern state legislatures began enacting Black Codes to restrict freedmen's rights and maintain the plantation system. The Republican-controlled Congress responded to these measures by passing the three great postwar constitutional amendments (Thirteenth, Fourteenth ...

    • Brown v. Board of Education The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Educational Fund, led by Thurgood Marshall, spent decades fighting against racial segregation in education.
    • Rosa Parks arrested On December 1, 1955, civil rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white passenger.
    • Little Rock school integration crisis After the Brown v. Board, Supreme Court decision, state and local officials in a number of states resisted school integration.
    • Birmingham campaign In the spring of 1963, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., launched a large-scale campaign of sit-ins and marches in Birmingham, Alabama, to protest the city’s brutal segregation policies.
    • Mandela’s Leadership from Prison
    • Negotiations with President Botha
    • Violence in The Townships
    • The Negotiated Transition
    • Violence in The Midst of Negotiations

    The combined pressures of domestic and international opposition ultimately pushed the apartheid government to negotiate a political transition. The National Party government increasingly recognized that its position was precarious and untenable and began the process of early interactions with Nelson Mandela, whom its leaders saw as the representati...

    The National Party cultivated the idea that Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists were terrorists. This was a view that many white South Africans and people outside South Africa shared. But by the 1980s, the campaign to free Mandela had gained widespread international attention, and stories of his continued imprisonment had become an entry poi...

    A pressure point for Botha and the National Party—as well as Mandela and the other resistance leaders—was the spread of protests and violence within the country. By the end of the 1980s, violence in the townships had climbed to unprecedented levels. No group or organization, including the ANC and the UDF, could contain the anger of a new generation...

    When President Botha resigned in August 1989, following a mild stroke, Frederik Willem de Klerk succeeded him as president, and he took over the process of negotiating a political transition. A conservative champion of Afrikaner nationalism, de Klerk was not the likeliest person to end apartheid. While he had been involved, as a government minister...

    One of the popular myths about South Africa’s transition is that it was bloodless. While South Africa did not devolve into civil war, the transition was violent and bloody. More lives were lost during the period of transition than throughout the entire period of apartheid. Even as the government led by President de Klerk was engaged in negotiations...

  5. Jun 6, 2017 · Like struggle and progress, revolution and repression are intertwined. That has always been the case for African Americans. Even before the United States came into being, black people tried to overturn a social order built on European imperialism and African enslavement.

  6. Dec 4, 2017 · The civil rights movement was an organized effort by Black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law. It began in the late 1940s and ended in the late...

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