Civil Rights in the U.S. (1953-1974)
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- U.S. Civil Rights (1953 - 1974)
- Groups
- National Association for Advancement of Colored People
- Organisation of Afro-American Unity
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- Organized freedom rides boarding buses heading South.
- Black Panthers
- Demands
- Compensation for black community.
- Black juries.
- Freedom of blacks in white jails.
- Exemption of blacks from Vietnam conscription.
- Demands
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1960)
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Constitutional Court Rulings
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)
- Declared that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional.
- Boynton v. Virginia (1960)
- Prohibited racial segregation in all waiting rooms and restaurants in bus terminals.
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Declared racial segregation as unconstitutional.
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)
- Acts
- Equal Pay Act (1963)
- Equitable wages regardless of race.
- Hart-Celler Immigration Act (1965)
- Civil Rights Act (1964)
- Prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race.
- Voting Rights Act (1965)
- Gave African-Americans the right to vote.
- Fair Housing Act (1968)
- Banned discrimination in housing.
- Equal Pay Act (1963)
- Key Events
- Sit in movement in Greensboro (1960)
- Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
- Little Rock Nine (1957)
- March in Washington and 'I Have A Dream' (1963)
- Anti-segregation protests in Birmingham (1963)
- Groups
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