All 4 Uses of
civil rights movement
in
Half the Sky
- Even in the United States, after all, what brought equal rights to blacks wasn't the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments passed after the Civil War, but rather the grassroots civil rights movement nearly one hundred years later.
Chpt 4 *civil rights movement = popular effort to establish political and social equality for African Americans in the USA (1954-1968)
- One result was a broad civil rights movement that built coalitions, spotlighted the suffering, and tore away the blinders that allowed good people to acquiesce in racism.
Chpt 14
- The American civil rights movement is one model, and so is the environmental movement, but both of those were different because they involved domestic challenges close to home.
Chpt 14
- In the 1960s, blacks like Dr. King led the civil rights movement, but they received crucial backing from Freedom Riders and other white supporters.
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(civil rights movement) popular effort to establish political and social equality for African Americans in the USA (1954-1968)