civil rights

Examples of civil rights in the following topics:

• 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.
  • The goal of the 1957 Civil Rights Act was to ensure that all Americans could exercise their right to vote.
  • 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.
  • Johnson helped secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• Civil Rights and Voting Rights

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were landmark pieces of legislation that addressed major forms of discrimination.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964, enacted on July 2, 1964, was a landmark piece of legislation.
  • Kennedy called for a civil rights act in his speech about civil rights on June 11, 1963.
  • The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act changed the lives of African Americans and transformed society in many ways.
  • Examine the passage and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

  • 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:
  • Scenes from Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C. in August 1963.
  • Summarize the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.

• Civil Rights

  • During his administration, Truman made several important contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
  • First, he created the President's Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946.
  • The committee produced a report titled To Secure These Rights, which presented a detailed ten-point agenda of civil rights reforms.
  • He had an impact on the culture of and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Examine the struggle over African American Civil Rights in the postwar period

• Civil Rights Under Nixon

  • The Nixon administration, prioritizing a return to "law and order," did not advance civil rights to the extent of the previous administrations.
  • The Nixon administration did not prioritize civil rights to the extent of the previous Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
  • Public support for civil rights had peaked in the mid-1960's, galvanized by Martin Luther King's leadership and media coverage of overt repression in the South.
  • A majority of fearful white Americans began to prioritize "law and order" over the advancements of civil rights.
  • Nixon's civil rights efforts also included his endorsement of the Equal Rights Ammendment (ERA).

• The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

  • While Congress played a role by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the actions of civil rights groups such as CORE, the SCLC, and SNCC were instrumental in forging new paths, pioneering new techniques and strategies, and achieving breakthrough successes.
  • The key civil rights events of the 1950s (Brown v.
  • Its purpose was to pressure President Kennedy to act on his promises regarding civil rights.
  • 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

• Federal Intervention

  • Several important strides toward the advancement of civil rights were made during the Kennedy Administration
  • Kennedy verbally supported racial integration and civil rights in many instances.
  • Robert Kennedy replied, "Civil Rights."
  • That evening, Kennedy gave his famous civil rights address on national television and radio, launching his initiative for civil rights legislation—to provide equal access to public schools and other facilities and greater protection of voting rights.
  • Robert Kennedy demonstrated federal support for the civil rights movement.

• The Flowering of Black Freedom Struggle

  • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was part of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
  • The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations.
  • Speakers included all six civil-rights leaders of the major activist organizations.
  • The march was not universally supported among civil rights activists.
  • Outline major events in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

• Conclusion: Change in the 1960s

  • The African American civil rights movement made significant progress in the 1960s.
  • While Congress played a role by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the actions of civil rights groups were instrumental in forging new paths, pioneering new techniques and strategies, and achieving breakthrough successes.
  • Civil rights activists engaged in sit-ins, freedom rides, and protest marches, and registered African American voters.
  • The Mexican American civil rights movement, led largely by Cesar Chavez, also made significant progress at this time.
  • His social programs, investments in education, support for the arts, and commitment to civil rights changed the lives of countless people and transformed society in many ways.

• Conclusion: The Effects of Reconstruction

  • Reconstruction was a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States, but most historians consider it a failure.
  • Reconstruction was a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States, but most historians consider it a failure because the South became a poverty-stricken backwater attached to agriculture, while white Southerners attempted to re-establish dominance through violence, intimidation and discrimination, forcing freedmen into second class citizenship with limited rights, and excluding them from the political process.
  • The conditions of black Americans would not improve until the civil rights era of the 1950s and 60s.
  • Despite these failures, important landmarks in civil rights for black Americans nonetheless were reached at that time.
  • Although these constitutional rights were eroded by racist violence and Jim Crow laws, blacks still began participating in politics and these amendments lay the legal groundwork for more substantive equality during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 60s.