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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

To prepare for your Civil Rights Movement Informational Book, read the following resources to learn and take notes from.

OVERVIEW

TIMELINE & KEY EVENTS

Civil Rights Movement: Timeline, Key Events & LeadersThe civil rights movement was a struggle for justice and equality for African Americans that took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. Among its leaders were Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, the Little Rock Nine, Rosa Parks and many others.

VOCABULARY

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DEFINITIONS & FACTS

American civil rights movement | Definition, Protests, Activists, & FactsAmerican civil rights movement, mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to resist racial oppression and abolish the institution of slavery. Although enslaved people were emancipated as a result of the American Civil War and were then granted basic civil rights through the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, struggles to secure federal protection of these rights continued during the next century. Through nonviolent protest, the

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BRAINPOPS

CIVIL RIGHTS OVERVIEW

JIM CROW

BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION

RUBY BRIDGES

Take a deeper dive into important events during the Civil Rights Movement

March on Washington

Selma to Montgomery March

Little Rock Nine

Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Freedom Rides

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