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The national coverage of the Civil Rights Movement transformed the United States by showing Americans the violence and segregation of African Americans' journey for their civil rights. Local television news in Virginia in the 1950s was more balanced than the print media. The current archive contains films from two local television stations in ...
All of the archive's substantive content was created by participants and activists of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The archive is a primary source for pictures, events, documents, people, poetry, oral histories, commentaries and largely forgotten stories about the civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on American society – in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism .
The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in ...
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.
National civil rights leaders such as Dick Gregory, Gloria Richardson, and Malcolm X came to Chester to support the demonstrations. In April 1964, almost nightly protests brought chaos to Chester. The city deputized firemen and trash collectors to help handle demonstrators [ 3 ] and the State of Pennsylvania deployed 50 state troopers to assist ...
The Pennsylvania Dutch (1950) Klein, Philip Shriver. Pennsylvania Politics, 1817–1832: A Game without Rules (1940) McCullough, David. The Johnstown Flood (1968) Mueller, Henry R. The Whig Party in Pennsylvania (1922) Nash, Gary B. Forging freedom: The formation of Philadelphia's black community, 1720–1840 (Harvard University Press, 1988).
Six civil rights laws barring segregation were passed between 1890 and 1956. 1866: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriage between white persons and Negroes, Indians, or a person of half or more Negro or Indian blood. 1887: Barred anti-miscegenation [Statute] Repealed anti-miscegenation law.