PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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the Little Rock 9
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the Albany Movement
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the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Albany Movement aimed to end all forms of racial segregation in the city, focusing initially on desegregating travel facilities, forming a permanent biracial committee to discuss further desegregation, and the release of those jailed in segregation protests.
Detailed explanation-2: -The movement helped spawn a national crisis that forced intervention by the federal government to overturn segregation laws in southern states, restore voting rights for African-Americans, and end legal discrimination in housing, education and employment.
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 American civil rights movement started in the mid-1950s. A major catalyst in the push for civil rights was in December 1955, when NAACP activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. Read about Rosa Parks and the mass bus boycott she sparked.