PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Washington D.C.
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Little Rock, Arkansas
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Topeka, Kansas
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Orange County, California
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first major event of the modern civil rights movement was the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education, which overturned desegregated schools across the nation. Schools, especially in the South, were slow to comply, and often attempts to register black students broke out in violence.
Detailed explanation-2: -The US Civil Rights Movement of 1954-1968 refers to a series of events and reform movements that took place in the country. Martin Luther King Junior headed this movement, which demanded for the abolition of legal discrimination against the African-Americans. Q. When did Civil Rights Movement started?
Detailed explanation-3: -In December 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, one of the first major protests began. Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger, as required by the city’s segregation laws.
Detailed explanation-4: -Led by Martin Luther King Jr., this movement practiced non-violent methods of civil disobedience against racially discriminatory laws and practices.