PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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changing public attitudes/perceptions regarding segregation.
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violent protest.
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economic issues.
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political rights.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The efforts of civil rights activists and countless protesters of all races brought about legislation to end segregation, Black voter suppression and discriminatory employment and housing practices.
Detailed explanation-2: -The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -By the decade’s end, federal legislation out-lawed the practices that had been used to reduce African Americans to second-class status. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 ended the era of state-sanctioned discrimination and segregation.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Civil Rights Movement was an era dedicated to activism for equal rights and treatment of African Americans in the United States. During this period, people rallied for social, legal, political and cultural changes to prohibit discrimination and end segregation.