PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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Its focus shifted to the Deep South.
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Its leaders were drawn primarily from black churches.
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It included more direct and confrontational challenges to Jim Crow legislation.
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It relied more heavily on the pre-World War II generation of activists.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The movement’s overall strategy combined litigation, the use of mass media, boycotts, demonstrations, as well as sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience to turn public support against institutionalized racism and secure substantive reform in US law.
Detailed explanation-3: -Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, “freedom rides, ” and rallies received national attention as newspaper, radio, and television reporters and cameramen documented the struggle to end racial inequality.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did the civil rights movement change in the mid-1960s? In the mid-1960s, economic issues became the main focused of the civil rights agenda. Violent outbreaks drew attention to racial injustice and inequalities in jobs, education, and housing.