PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
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nonviolence
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Black Power
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black nationalism
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community development
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Detailed explanation-1: -Malcolm X was the most influential thinker of what became known as the Black Power movement, and inspired others like Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Huey P.
Detailed explanation-2: -They advocated a radical, economic, social and education agenda that made it the target of a determined campaign of suppression by the police and FBI. The Black Panthers’ activities were captured in the slogan, “Power to the People."
Detailed explanation-3: -Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could prove effective in the American civil rights movement.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Montgomery Bus Boycott. 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.