CBSE BOARD X, asked by devendrayadu196, 1 year ago

What are civil rights do you think that the movement started in the USA League by Martin Luther King was right write in short about the movement

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Answered by Triyan
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IT REFERS TO A SET OF EVENTS AND REFORM MOVEMENTS AIMED AT ABOLISHING LEGAL RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS. IT WAS LED BY MARTIN LUTHER KING, THIS MOVEMENT PRACTICED NON VIOLENT METHODS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AGAINST RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY LAWS AND PRACTICES....


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Answered by AnuragPatel
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The civil rights movement (also known as the American civil rights movementand other terms) occurred, largely, between 1954 and 1968 to secure legal rights for African-Americans. It encompassed strategies, groups, and social movements to accomplish the goals of ending legalized racial segregation and discrimination in the United States. The movement secured new recognition in federal law and federal protection of all Americans.

Civil rights movement

The March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial

Date1954–1968 (15 years)[a]LocationUnited StatesResulted inRulings by federal judiciary:"Separate but equal" doctrine overturned by Brown v. Board of Education (1954)Bus segregation ruled unconstitutional by Browder v. Gayle (1956)Interracial marriages legalized by Loving v. Virginia (1967)Passage of federal laws:

Civil Rights Act of 1957Civil Rights Act of 1960Civil Rights Act of 1964Voting Rights Act of 1965Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act)

Ratification of a federal constitutional amendment:

24th Amendment (1964)

Formation of federal agencies:

Civil Rights Division within US Department of Justice (1957)US Commission on Civil Rights(1957)Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1965)Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity within US Department of Housing and Urban Development (1968)

The movement was characterized by major nonviolent campaigns. After the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the 1860s, the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution, sought to secure the rights of African Americans. While for a short time during the Reconstruction era, African Americans voted and held political office, they were soon deprived of civil rights, often under Jim Crow laws, and subjected to discrimination and sustained violence. Over the following century, various efforts were made by African Americans to secure their legal rights. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations and productive dialogues between activists and government authorities. Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to these situations, which highlighted the inequities faced by African Americans. The lynching of Emmett Till and the visceral response to his mother's decision to have an open-casket funeral mobilized the African-American community nationwide.[1] Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–56) in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina and successful Nashville sit-ins in Tennessee; marches, such as the Birmingham Children's Crusade and Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities.

The 1960s civil rights movement both lobbied and worked with Congress to achieve the passage of several significant pieces of federal legislation overturning discriminatory practices. The Civil Rights Act of 1964[2] expressly banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment practices; ended unequal application of voter registration requirements; and prohibited racial segregation in schools, at the workplace, and in public accommodations. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 restored and protected voting rights for minorities by authorizing federal oversight of registration and elections in areas with a historic under-representation of minorities as voters. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. African Americans re-entered politics in the South, and across the country young people were inspired to take action.

From 1964 through 1970, a wave of inner-city riots in black communities undercut support from the white community. The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted from about 1965 to 1985, challenged the established black leadership for its cooperative attitude and its practice of nonviolence, and instead demanding that, in addition to the new laws gained through the nonviolent movement, political and economic self-sufficiency be built in the black community.

Many popular representations of the movement are centered on the leadership and philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr., who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prizefor his role in the movement. Some scholars note that the movement was too diverse to be credited to any one person, organization, or strategy.

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