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Black power
Aimed at achieving self-determination among African Americans. Used mainly is the united states. -
Counter-culture
A way of life. Subculture whose values and normal behavior differs. -
NAACP
Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was one of the earliest and most influential civil rights organization in the United States. During its early years, the NAACP focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
Had a series of court cases that dealt with the same issues which is the segregation of schools. Established in 1954. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride public buses. Took place from 1955-1956 -
Black Power
Aimed for achieving self-determination for African Americans. This slogan is highly popular amongst African Americans in the United States. -
Latino movement
Legal immigrants have the same right as other american. Extended the mexican civil rights. -
Martin Luther King junior's assasination
In early April 1968, shock waves reverberated around the world with the news that U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. A Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s, using a combination of powerful words and non-violent tactics such as sit-ins, boycotts and protest marches -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Banned discrimination in public places illegal.People can not be segregated based on race, religion, sex, or gender. -
Selma march
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. That March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. -
Malcom X
He was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans -
Feminist movement
Women liberation movement. 19th amendment established from this. -
March on Washington
Martin Luther king and others march so that everyone can have equal rights.
