Civil Rights Movements
The main aim of the civil rights movement was to give everybody equal rights regardless of color skin color, gender, nationality, religion, disability or age. The aim of the movement which peaked in the 1960’s was to ensure that the rights of all people are equally and are protected by the law. Civil rights include a number of things for example the right to free speech, assembly, a fair trial. You can read more about this and the amazing people that helped to make these changes below. As always have fun learning and enjoy.
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Booker T. Washington
Born a slave on a plantation in 1856, Booker T. Washington had little in the way of hope to be more.
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Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez made a major contribution to the way in which farm labor and migrant workers were
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born in 1815, was a granddaughter of a Revolutionary hero and had a passion
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a former slave and the son of a white father whom he never knew and an
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was born into northern slavery in Maryland in 1820 and her sense of independence led
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Helen Keller
Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute due to an early childhood illness and overcame these disabilities
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Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was the daughter of American slaves and was born in Mississippi in 1862 in the middle
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Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first Black American to join baseball’s major league in 1947 as a prominent
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the leading men involved in the civil rights movement.
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Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi is known around the world for his philosophy of passive nonresistance
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Mother Teresa
The woman known as Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in what is now known as the Republic of Macedonia.
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was the leader of the South African movement to freedom and his participation in
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Rosa Parks
The civil rights movement in the United States was at the edge of happening in 1955. During that time
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Sojourner Truth
Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 17971 and born into a slave family in New York. She was sold
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Susan B. Anthony
The architecture of the ancient Indus Valley civilization was very advanced. There were two main
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Thurgood Marshall
Marshall played a major role in the civil rights movement and as an attorney helped to establish
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African American Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most important changes in America. Even though the
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Apartheid
Apartheid means ‘apart-hood’ or ‘the state of being apart’ and was the system of racial inequality
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Disability Rights
The fight for the rights for people that experienced disabilities began around 1962. This movement
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Native American Rights
The story of the Native Americans in the United States is one of the most shameless in its history.
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Slavery and Abolitionism
During the original settlements in the ‘new world’, slavery of black people was common in
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Women’s Suffrage
By the 1820’s and 30’s, most men in the United States had been given life freedoms, including property
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Bill of Rights Simplified
On March 4, 1789, America officially adopted the United States Constitution, which established the
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Birmingham Campaign
Alabama is one of the southern states in the United States and, as many in the south, maintained policies
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The years leading up to the 1960’s were filled with unrest, violence and unhappiness as the Black Americans
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Emancipation Proclamation
When the Civil War in America broke out President Lincoln focused on support of the war based on the
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Jim Crow Laws
“Jump Jim Crow” was the name of a 19th century song that created a stereotype about African Americans.
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Little Rock Nine
Racial discrimination and oppression has been a shameful part of the American history. Life in the
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Magna Carta
In 1215, King John of England was facing a potential rebellion by many of the baron’s that held power.
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March On Washington
By the 1960’s, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States had reached a peak. The movement was to
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Part of life in the southern states in the 1950’s included specific local and state laws that required
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Civil Rights Leaders
Civil Rights Movements
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