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Many protests during the civil rights movement were a response to police brutality, including the 1965 Watts riots which resulted in the deaths of 34 people, mostly African Americans. [43] The largest post-civil rights movement protest in the 20th-century was the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which were in response to the acquittal of police officers ...
Jibreel Khazan (born Ezell Alexander Blair Jr.; October 18, 1941) is a civil rights activist who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four, a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers.
John Berry Meachum, civil rights activist, educatior, religious leader, involved in the Underground Railroad [22] James Meredith, civil rights figure, writer, political adviser; Anne Moody, civil rights activist, author; Harry T. Moore, civil rights activist, educator; Harriette Moore, civil rights worker, educator
Black burial grounds in Charleston, South Carolina, will soon receive the long-overdue care and protection that they need. The Preservation The post $50K federal grant equips Charleston to locate ...
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, [1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. [2]
The Fair Housing Act is Title VIII of this Civil Rights Act, and bans discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. The law is passed following a series of Open Housing campaigns throughout the urban North, the most significant being the 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement and the organized events in Milwaukee during 1967–68.
The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-6904-9. Smith, Robert Charles (1996). "The National Black Political Convention, 1972–84". We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era. SUNY Press. pp. 29– 85. ISBN 978-0-7914 ...
Over the following century, various efforts were made by African Americans to secure their legal and civil rights, such as the civil rights movements of 1865–1896 and of 1896–1954. The movement was characterized by nonviolent mass protests and civil disobedience following highly publicized events such as the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955.