Civil Rights Movement

Examples of Civil Rights Movement in the following topics:

• The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

  • The Civil Rights Movement or 1960s Civil Rights Movement (sometimes referred to as the "African-American Civil Rights Movement" although the term "African American" was not widely used in the 1950s and '60s) encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law.
  • While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement.
  • A critical Supreme Court decision of this phase of the Civil Rights Movement was the 1954 Brown v.
  • Other noted legislative achievements during this critical phase of the civil rights movement were:
  • Summarize the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.

• The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

  • The Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to U.S. social movements aimed at exposing institutional racism and achieving liberation for African Americans.
  • The Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the social movements led by African Americans in the United States aimed at exposing rampant (and often legalized) racial discrimination and achieving equal rights and liberation for African Americans.
  • The speech marked a high point of the civil rights movement and established the legitimacy of its goals.
  • The growing African-American civil rights movement also spawned civil rights movements for other marginalized groups during the 1960s.
  • Outline the course of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s

• Women of the Civil Rights Movement

  • Though often overlooked, many women played integral leadership roles in the advancements of the civil rights movement in the United States.
  • While their names all too often go unrecognized, many women were an integral part of the advancements made during the civil rights movement in the United States.
  • Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist.
  • During the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Height organized "Wednesdays in Mississippi," which brought together black and white women from the North and South to create a dialogue of understanding.
  • Ella Baker was an integral activist in the Civil Rights movement, championing the idea of participatory democracy.

• Latino Rights

  • The Chicano Movement was the part of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement that sought political and social empowerment for Mexican Americans.
  • The Mexican American Movement was part of the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s seeking political empowerment and social inclusion for Mexican Americans.
  • Like the African American movement, the Mexican American civil rights movement won its earliest victories in the federal courts.
  • Prior to the movement of the 1960s and 70s, Mexican American civil rights activists had achieved several major legal victories.
  • The highest-profile struggle of the Mexican American civil rights movement was the fight that Caesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta waged in the fields of California to organize migrant farm workers.

• Conclusion: Change in the 1960s

  • The African American civil rights movement made significant progress in the 1960s.
  • While Congress played a role by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the actions of civil rights groups were instrumental in forging new paths, pioneering new techniques and strategies, and achieving breakthrough successes.
  • Although the African American civil rights movement was the most prominent of the crusades for racial justice, other ethnic minorities also worked to seize their piece of the American dream during the promising years of the 1960s.
  • The Mexican American civil rights movement, led largely by Cesar Chavez, also made significant progress at this time.
  • Influenced and inspired by the civil rights movement, organizations and student groups formed across the country to protest the Vietnam War, advocate for women's rights, and stand up against discrimination faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

• The Flowering of Black Freedom Struggle

  • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was part of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
  • Speakers included all six civil-rights leaders of the major activist organizations.
  • The march was not universally supported among civil rights activists.
  • Though Freedom Summer failed to register many voters, it significantly effected the course of the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Outline major events in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

• Civil Rights

  • President Truman's actions on civil rights are seen as early movement in the decades-long quest for legal equality for African Americans.
  • During his administration, Truman made several important contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
  • In defiance, African-American activists adopted a combined strategy of direct action, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, and many events described as civil disobedience, giving rise to the African-American Civil Rights Movement of 1954–1968.
  • He had an impact on the culture of and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Examine the struggle over African American Civil Rights in the postwar period

• Legislative Change

  • The consistent struggle of the Civil Rights Movement and efforts of hundreds of thousands anonymous African Americans forced legislators to enact a series of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War.
  • Although passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 seemed to indicate a growing federal commitment to the cause of civil rights, the legislation was limited.
  • The Civil Rights Movement continued to expand, with protesters leading nonviolent demonstrations to mark their cause.
  • In the summer of 1963, various parts of the civil rights movement collaborated to run voter education and voter registration drives in Mississippi.

• American Indian Rights

  • The fight for American Indian rights expanded in the 1960s, resulting in the creation of the American Indian Movement.
  • The movement for American Indian rights in the 1960s centered around the tension between rights granted via tribal sovereignty and rights that individual American Indians retain as U.S. citizens.
  • With the passage of the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA) in 1968, also called the Indian Bill of Rights, American Indians were guaranteed - at least on paper - many civil rights.
  • At a time when peaceful sit-ins were a common protest tactic of the African American civil rights movement, the AIM takeovers in their early days were noticeably violent.
  • Explain the Native American rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s

• Civil Rights and Voting Rights

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were landmark pieces of legislation that addressed major forms of discrimination.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964, enacted on July 2, 1964, was a landmark piece of legislation.
  • Kennedy called for a civil rights act in his speech about civil rights on June 11, 1963.
  • The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act changed the lives of African Americans and transformed society in many ways.
  • Examine the passage and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964