Civil rights movement Flashcards

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Reasons why America declared independence in 1776

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What is the Black Power Movement?

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African-Americans, or blacks, changed their views about the manner by which they should achieve economic power, political power, and civil rights in 1960

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Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955 Causes

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Rosa Parks was returning home from work on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Martin Luther King

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On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, and Martin Luther King made his famous I have a dream speech to a worldwide audience.

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Malcom X

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He was a political activist and is most well known for his work as a leader during the civil rights moVement in America.
He suffered racial abuse from the KKK’s

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Segregation & Jim Crow Laws;

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they wanted to separate white and black people.

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