Baton Rouge bus boycott (1953)
GPTKB entity
Statements (18)
Predicate | Object |
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gptkbp:instanceOf |
Civil rights protest
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gptkbp:cause |
Racial segregation on public buses
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gptkbp:country |
gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:endDate |
June 25, 1953
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Baton Rouge bus boycott (1953)
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gptkbp:influenced |
gptkb:Montgomery_bus_boycott
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gptkbp:location |
gptkb:Baton_Rouge,_Louisiana
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gptkbp:mediaCoverage |
Local and national newspapers
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gptkbp:opposedBy |
Baton Rouge city officials
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gptkbp:organizedBy |
gptkb:Reverend_T._J._Jemison
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gptkbp:participants |
African American residents of Baton Rouge
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gptkbp:precededBy |
Jim Crow laws in Louisiana
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gptkbp:relatedTo |
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
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gptkbp:result |
Partial desegregation of bus seating
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gptkbp:significance |
First large-scale bus boycott of the civil rights movement
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gptkbp:startDate |
June 19, 1953
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gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Baton_Rouge
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gptkbp:bfsLayer |
5
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