PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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March on Washington (1963)
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sit-in
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freedom riders
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de facto segregation
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de jure segregation
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Detailed explanation-1: -On August 28 1963, a quarter of a million people rallied in Washington, D.C. to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections.
Detailed explanation-2: -Martin Luther King Jr. The Civil Rights Act of 1965 was passed during his presidency. Its goal was to persuade Congress to pass Kennedy’s civil rights bill. He was the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kennedy defined the civil rights crisis as moral, as well as constitutional and legal. He announced that major civil rights legislation would be submitted to the Congress to guarantee equal access to public facilities, to end segregation in education, and to provide federal protection of the right to vote.