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1. www.history.com › civil-rights-movementCivil Rights Movement: Timeline, Key Events & Leaders | HISTORY

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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 King Jr., Malcolm X, the ...

2. www.history.com › civil-rights-movement-timelineCivil Rights Movement Timeline - Timeline & Events | HISTORY

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   • 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.

3. www.britannica.com › event › American-civil-rightsAmerican civil rights movement | Definition, Protests ...

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   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.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Civil_rights_movementCivil rights movement - Wikipedia

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   Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (1968) The civil rights movement [b] 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. The movement had its origins in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century and had ...

   • Date: May 17, 1954 – August 1, 1968

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5. www.loc.gov › civil-rights-movementThe Civil Rights Movement | The Post War United States, 1945 ...

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   • 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.

6. www.khanacademy.org › humanities › us-historyIntroduction to the Civil Rights Movement - Khan Academy

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   The Civil Rights Movement is an umbrella term for the many varieties of activism that sought to secure full political, social, and economic rights for African Americans in the period from 1946 to 1968. Civil rights activism involved a diversity of approaches, from bringing lawsuits in court, to lobbying the federal government, to mass direct ...

7. www.history.com › news › civil-rights-movement-keyThe Civil Rights Movement: 7 Key Moments That Led ... - HISTORY

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   Feb 1, 2024 · In the mid-1950s, the modern civil rights movement arose out of the desire of African Americans to win the equality and freedom from discrimination that continued to elude them nearly a century ...