African American civil rights movement

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/African_American_civil_rights_movement

GPTKB entity

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:political_party
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:commemoratedBy	gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Day gptkb:National_Civil_Rights_Museum gptkb:Civil_Rights_Memorial
gptkbp:endDate	1968
gptkbp:goal	end racial segregation achieve equal rights for African Americans
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	African American civil rights movement
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Black_Power_movement
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Abolitionist_movement
gptkbp:legacy	desegregation of public facilities inspiration for other social movements increased political representation for African Americans
gptkbp:location	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	gptkb:radio_station gptkb:television newspapers
gptkbp:method	gptkb:civil_disobedience legal challenges protest
gptkbp:notableCase	gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 gptkb:Fair_Housing_Act_of_1968 gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom gptkb:Montgomery_Bus_Boycott gptkb:Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
gptkbp:notableLeader	gptkb:John_Lewis gptkb:Malcolm_X gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr. gptkb:Rosa_Parks
gptkbp:notableOrganization	gptkb:Congress_of_Racial_Equality gptkb:NAACP gptkb:Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference gptkb:Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee
gptkbp:notableVictim	gptkb:Emmett_Till gptkb:Medgar_Evers gptkb:Andrew_Goodman gptkb:James_Chaney gptkb:Michael_Schwerner gptkb:Viola_Liuzzo
gptkbp:opposedBy	Ku Klux Klan segregationists
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Black_Lives_Matter gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws gptkb:Great_Migration Civil Rights Movement (worldwide)
gptkbp:significantSupremeCourtCase	gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education gptkb:Loving_v._Virginia
gptkbp:startDate	1954
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Chicano_civil_rights_movement gptkb:Mexican_American_civil_rights_movement gptkb:I_AM_A_MAN_(Memphis_sanitation_strike,_1968) gptkb:YMCA_for_African_Americans gptkb:Mary_Yuriko_Nakahara
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7