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  2. Big Six (activists) - Wikipedia

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    The Big Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

  3. Civil rights movements - Wikipedia

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    James Bevel initiated and directed the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, and other civil rights movement events of the 1960s. Besides the Children's Crusade and the Selma to Montgomery marches, another illustrious event of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in ...

  4. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - Wikipedia

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    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed in April 1960 at a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, attended by 126 student delegates from 58 sit-in centers in 12 states, from 19 northern colleges, and from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the National ...

  5. Atlanta Student Movement - Wikipedia

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    The original work on An Appeal for Human Rights begun by members of the Atlanta Student Movement continues into the present, with periodic reviews in 2000, and 2010. These include the 40th Anniversary An Appeal for Human Rights v.II , [ 16 ] [ 17 ] 2010 - An Appeal for Human Rights vIII) by means of a review, reflection, and revision process by ...

  6. Savannah Protest Movement - Wikipedia

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    The city of Savannah, Georgia, was founded in 1733, [1] making it the oldest city in the state and one of the oldest in the United States. [2] [3] At its founding, the city was a farming community where slavery was banned, though the institution became legal in 1750 and, in the following years, Savannah became a major port city in the Atlantic slave trade. [1]

  7. Nashville Student Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Nashville Student Movement was an organization that challenged racial segregation in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil Rights Movement. It was created during workshops in nonviolence taught by James Lawson at the Clark Memorial United Methodist Church. The students from this organization initiated the Nashville sit-ins in 1960.

  8. Civil rights movement - Wikipedia

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    Known as the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), the group initiated the Atlanta Student Movement and began to lead sit-ins starting on March 15, 1960. [ 85 ] [ 91 ] By the end of 1960, the process of sit-ins had spread to every southern and border state , and even to facilities in Nevada , Illinois , and Ohio that discriminated ...

  9. Free Speech Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Free Speech Movement had long-lasting effects at the Berkeley campus and was a pivotal moment for the civil liberties movement in the 1960s. It was seen as the beginning of the famous student activism that existed on the campus in the 1960s, and continues to a lesser degree today.

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