PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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an increase in African American voter participation.
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a decrease in the number of registered minority voters.
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an increase in the number of major political parties.
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a decrease in the number of political protests.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Movement Gains Ground Through victories in the courts and the success of sit-ins and other nonviolent protests, African Americans slowly began to win their battle for civil rights.
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: -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.