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The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent action 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 in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism.
Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation. Though segregation laws existed before that case, the decision emboldened segregation states during the Jim Crow era , which had commenced in 1876, and supplanted the Black Codes , which restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans during ...
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. New York: Penguin Press, 2019. ISBN 0-5255-5953-1; Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8078-2287-6; Griffin, John Howard.
But its residents knew white people could use violence to enforce Jim Crow elsewhere. In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley stayed in the town during breaks in the trial of two white men accused of torturing ...
Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) ... Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film ...
Reconstruction era. ... (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) ... The road-movie plot has a group of African Americans on the ...
Throughout the South there were Jim Crow laws creating de jure legally required segregation. Facilities and services such as housing , healthcare , education , employment , and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations .
Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) ... The Great Migration is a backdrop of the 2013 film The Butler, ...