civil-rights movement

  • 11African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954) — The Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics,… …

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  • 12Timeline of the African-American Civil Rights Movement — This is a timeline of the African American Civil Rights Movement.1600 – 1799See also Racism in the United States.1676 *unknown Both free and enslaved African Americans fought in Bacon s Rebellion along with English colonists. 1739 *September 9 In …

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  • 13Photographers of the American Civil Rights Movement — Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the American Civil Rights Movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans …

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  • 14Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement — (Hebrew: יעד – תנועה לזכויות האזרח, Ya ad – Tenoa a LaZkhuyot HaEzrakh ), commonly known as just Ya ad, was a short lived political party in Israel. It is not related to the other party by the name of Ya ad which existed during the ninth… …

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  • 15List of segregationists during the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) — This is a list of segregationists during the American Civil Rights Movement (1955 1968). Many public figures, particularly in the South, defended compulsory racial segregation as an institution during the Civil Rights Movement, and many others… …

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  • 16Civil Rights Act of 1964 — Full title An act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States of America to provide relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to …

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  • 17Civil Rights anthem — Civil Rights anthems is a relational concept to protest song, but one that is specifically linked to the African American Civil Rights Movement. The songs were often sung during protests or marches related to the movement. Participants in the… …

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  • 18Civil rights (disambiguation) — Civil rights may refer to several different things: Civil rights movement, various campaigns in many countries, and on a transnational scale, for equality before the law Civil and political rights are a class of rights ensuring things such as the …

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  • 19civil rights — Rights which are recognized as belonging to all individuals in a society, which can be upheld by appeal to the law, and are not subject to arbitrary denial either by individuals or the state. They are usually defended in terms of the protection… …

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  • 20civil rights — noun plural * the basic rights that all people in a society should have, for example the right to be treated fairly by the law, the right to express your ideas, and the right to practice your religion: the civil rights movement of the 1960s a… …

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