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African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1954–1968)
GPTKB entity
Statements (51)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:political_party
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:commemoratedBy
gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Day
gptkb:Black_History_Month
gptkbp:endDate
1968
gptkbp:goal
end racial segregation
achieve legal recognition and federal protection of citizenship rights
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)
gptkbp:influenced
gptkb:American_Indian_Movement
gptkb:Chicano_Movement
gptkb:Women's_liberation_movement
LGBT rights movement
gptkbp:influencedBy
Gandhian nonviolence
gptkbp:location
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:method
gptkb:civil_disobedience
legal challenges
protest
gptkbp:notableCase
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957
gptkbp:notableEvent
gptkb:Birmingham_campaign
gptkb:Little_Rock_Nine
gptkb:March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom
gptkb:Montgomery_Bus_Boycott
gptkb:Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
gptkb:Freedom_Rides
gptkb:Greensboro_sit-ins
gptkbp:notableLeader
gptkb:John_Lewis
gptkb:Malcolm_X
gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
gptkb:Medgar_Evers
gptkb:Rosa_Parks
gptkbp:notableOrganization
gptkb:Black_Panther_Party
gptkb:Congress_of_Racial_Equality
gptkb:National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People
gptkb:Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference
gptkb:Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee
gptkbp:opposedBy
gptkb:White_Citizens'_Councils
Ku Klux Klan
gptkbp:relatedTo
gptkb:Black_Power_movement
gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws
gptkb:Second_Reconstruction
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement_(1865–1896)
gptkbp:resultedIn
desegregation of public facilities
greater social and political equality
increased voter registration among African Americans
gptkbp:significantSupremeCourtCase
gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education
gptkbp:startDate
1954
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Congress_of_Racial_Equality_(CORE)
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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