The Americas · Community
1954-1968 CE · United States
Black Americans and allies challenged segregation and disenfranchisement through lawsuits, boycotts, sit-ins, marches and voter registration. The movement won the 1954 Brown v. Board decision, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, at the cost of violent resistance and many lives.
Segregated buses, lunch counters and schools in the South, Black churches as meeting places, and mass marches such as Washington in 1963 and Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
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Setting and material context · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812
Ordinary people, students and churchgoers organized locally, faced arrest and violence, and built mutual-aid networks; northern cities saw campaigns against housing and job discrimination.
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Lifeways and community · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812
Domestic workers, sharecroppers, union members and professionals joined boycotts and strikes that put economic pressure on segregation.
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Black churches provided leadership, music and meeting space; nonviolent philosophy drew on Christian teaching and on Gandhi's satyagraha.
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Evidence register
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CIT-AMERICAS-NPS-CIVIL-RIGHTS
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilrights/index.htm
U.S. National Park Service
CIT-AMERICAS-NARA-CIVIL-RIGHTS-ACT
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/civil-rights-act
U.S. National Archives
CIT-AMERICAS-BRITANNICA-CIVIL-RIGHTS
https://www.britannica.com/event/American-civil-rights-movement
Encyclopaedia Britannica