Civil rights movement

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:political_party
gptkbp:activePeriod 1950s
1960s
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Day
gptkb:Black_History_Month
gptkbp:goal end racial segregation
achieve equal rights for African Americans
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Civil rights movement
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Chicano_Movement
gptkb:suffragist
LGBT rights movement
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Gandhian_philosophy
gptkbp:location gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:mediaCoverage gptkb:television
newspapers
gptkbp:method gptkb:civil_disobedience
protest
gptkbp:notableCase gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
gptkb:Fair_Housing_Act_of_1968
gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Birmingham_campaign
gptkb:March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom
gptkb:Montgomery_Bus_Boycott
gptkb:Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
gptkb:Freedom_Rides
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:opposedBy gptkb:White_Citizens'_Councils
Ku Klux Klan
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Black_Power_movement
gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education
gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws
gptkb:Little_Rock_Nine
gptkb:Second_Reconstruction
gptkbp:resultedIn desegregation of public facilities
greater social and political equality
increased voter registration among African Americans
gptkbp:slogan gptkb:We_Shall_Overcome
gptkb:Black_Power
gptkb:Freedom_Now
gptkbp:symbol raised fist
peaceful march
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Clayborne_Carson
gptkb:Malcolm_X:_The_Last_Speeches_(book)
gptkb:On_the_Bus_with_Rosa_Parks
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5