THE AMERICAN SIXTIES
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Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement

  • An effort peaking in the 60’s where African Americans attempted to end racial discrimination through mostly nonviolent protests.
  • Women were denied abortions
  • In many states they could not buy contraception devices, or obtain national credit cards, or hope to rise to the top of most professions.
  • Black faces on TV shows that weren't sports contests and 
  • Provided the blueprint for the liberation of every other oppressed group in the United States.
  • Birth control pill 
  • Gay Rights

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Influence of the Civil Rights on the 60's

-The Civil Rights Movement is a never ending effort to secure the rights of African Americans and women.
- This effort peaked in the 60’s and is the foundation for much of what would follow.
- The ideas of Woodstock and self expression are examples of this progressive generation that was ready to make a change.

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Jim Crow Laws

-The 1986 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson legalized the “separate but equal” policies that dominated Southern Culture.
-These practices were seen as constitutional because of the court ruling.
-Plessy v. Ferguson the United States Supreme Court rules that separate but equal facilities based on race is legal

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Organizations of the Civil Rights movement

            
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP)        
-American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 
-National Organization for Women (NOW)

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Martin Luther King

-Christian minister from Atlanta
- Best known for his beliefs in nonviolence and civil disobedience
-He won a Nobel Prize for his work
-Inspired by Gandhi and Christianity
-Credited with much of the success

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Black Panther Party

-Stokely Carmichael was a leader of the Black Panther Party and popularized the phrase “black power”.
​Carmichael was an important and influential member of non-violent movements, but became militant. 

-Malcolm X was a very outspoken, militant leader of the Civil Rights Movement and The Black Panther Party.

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    • Fifties themes >
      • Creation of NASA
    • Vietnam >
      • Agent Orange
    • JFK >
      • Televised debate
      • Fallible Man: JFK's Affairs
      • LEE HARVEY OSWALD
      • Kennedy's Addiction
      • Underqualified Winner
      • Wallace's stand
      • Freeing the face of Civil Rights mvmt
      • Vienna Summit
      • Cuban Missile Crisis
      • JFK early life
      • Assassination aftermath
      • CIA did it
      • JFK: Desegregation of Ole Miss
      • Cuban government conspiracy
      • A Cold Warrior
    • The Civil Rights Movement >
      • Hoover vs. MLK
      • Black Panthers
      • George Wallace
      • Muhammad Ali
      • Rubin Carter
      • Montgomery Bus Boycott
      • Third Hero
      • Branch Rickey
  • Altamont: Decade of Failure
    • Parents
    • War on Poverty
    • Drugs & Music Culture
    • FBI Corruption
    • Sixties Politics
  • Woodstock
    • LSD on the brain
    • About Woodstock
    • Drugs
    • Civil Rights Movement
    • Political