PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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March on Selma Bridge
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March on Washington
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Albany Movement
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1, 000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1963, King and the SCLC worked with NAACP and other civil rights groups to organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which attracted 250, 000 people to rally for the civil and economic rights of Black Americans in the nation’s capital. There, King delivered his majestic 17-minute “I Have a Dream” speech.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first mass meeting of the Albany Movement was held on November 25 in Shiloh Baptist Church and was triggered by the arrest of five black students staging a sit-in at the Trailways bus station lunch counter.
Detailed explanation-4: -The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.