Civil Rights Movement

Examples of Civil Rights Movement in the following topics:

• Examples of Social Movements

• Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

  • The Civil Rights Movement aimed to outlaw racial discrimination against black Americans, particularly in the South.
  • The African American Civil Rights Movement refers to the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them.
  • The Civil Rights Movement generally lasted from 1955 to 1968 and was particularly focused in the American South.
  • Key events in the Civil Rights Movement included: the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956), which began when Rosa Parks, a NAACP secretary, was arrested when she refused to cede her public bus seat to a white passenger; the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School (1957); the Selma to Montgomery marches, also known as Bloody Sunday and the two marches that followed, were marches and protests held in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement which sought to secure voting rights for African-Americans.
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• The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

  • The Civil Rights Movement or 1960s Civil Rights Movement (sometimes referred to as the "African-American Civil Rights Movement" although the term "African American" was not widely used in the 1950s and '60s) encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law.
  • While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement.
  • A critical Supreme Court decision of this phase of the Civil Rights Movement was the 1954 Brown v.
  • Other noted legislative achievements during this critical phase of the civil rights movement were:
  • Summarize the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.

• The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

  • The Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to U.S. social movements aimed at exposing institutional racism and achieving liberation for African Americans.
  • The Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the social movements led by African Americans in the United States aimed at exposing rampant (and often legalized) racial discrimination and achieving equal rights and liberation for African Americans.
  • The speech marked a high point of the civil rights movement and established the legitimacy of its goals.
  • The growing African-American civil rights movement also spawned civil rights movements for other marginalized groups during the 1960s.
  • Outline the course of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s

• Resource Mobilization Approach

  • Resource mobilization theory also divides social movements according to their position among other social movements.
  • social movement entrepreneurs and protest organizations are the catalysts which transform collective discontent into social movements; social movement organizations form the backbone of social movements
  • As each movement's response to the opportunity structures depends on the movement's organization and resources, there is no clear pattern of movement development nor are specific movement techniques or methods universal.
  • Some movements are effective without an influx of money and are more dependent upon the movement of members for time and labor (e.g., the civil rights movement in the US).
  • Use the resource-mobilization theory to explain some of the successful social movements in history, such as the Civil Rights Movement

• Legislative Change

  • The consistent struggle of the Civil Rights Movement and efforts of hundreds of thousands anonymous African Americans forced legislators to enact a series of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War.
  • Although passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 seemed to indicate a growing federal commitment to the cause of civil rights, the legislation was limited.
  • The Civil Rights Movement continued to expand, with protesters leading nonviolent demonstrations to mark their cause.
  • In the summer of 1963, various parts of the civil rights movement collaborated to run voter education and voter registration drives in Mississippi.

• Civil Rights of People with Disabilities

  • Disabled Americans face limited access to public places and institutions that civil rights legislation seeks to address.
  • To address these concerns, a disability rights movement has introduced a range of legislation and law suits.
  • The disability rights movement became organized in the 1960s, concurrent with the African-American civil rights movement and feminist movement.
  • Throughout the 1970s and 80s, the disability rights act gained increasing visibility and a number of policy successes, including increased accessibility of public places and increased resources for people with developmental disabilities.
  • The act provided comprehensive civil rights protections modeled after the Civil Rights Act.

• Types of Social Movements

  • Aberle described four types of social movements based upon two fundamental questions: (1) who is the movement attempting to change?
  • Scope: A movement can be either reform or radical.
  • A reform movement might be a trade union seeking to increase workers' rights while the American Civil Rights movement was a radical movement.
  • Methods of Work: Peaceful movements utilize techniques such as nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
  • Based on who a movement is trying to change and how much change a movement is advocating, Aberle identified four types of social movements: redemptive, reformative, revolutionary and alternative.

• Abolitionism and the Women's Rights Movement

  • Many women involved in the early abolitionist movement went on to be important leaders in the early women's rights and suffrage movements.
  • A wide variety of progressive movements grew up during the decades leading up to the US Civil War.
  • Two of the most influential were the anti-slavery or abolitionist movement, and the women's rights movement.
  • These were also closely related as many of the women who would go on to be leaders in the women's rights movement got their political start in the abolitionist movement.
  • While women did not gain the right to vote in all sates until 1920, there were still some victories won for women's rights in the period leading up to the Civil War.

• The Rights of the Accused

  • An important postwar case was the Civil Rights Cases (1883), in which the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was at issue.
  • Civil and political rights form the original and main part of international human rights.
  • Civil and political rights are not codified to be protected, although most democracies worldwide do have formal written guarantees of civil and political rights.
  • Civil rights are considered to be natural rights.
  • The mural on the 'International Wall' depicts Frederick Douglass (1815-1895), a former slave who became one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War.