American civil rights movement

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civil rights movement political movement social movement

The American civil rights movement was a mid-20th-century mass social and political campaign, prominently led by figures like Martin Luther King Jr., that sought to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and secure equal rights under the law.

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Observed surface forms (24)

Surface form	Occurrences
Civil Rights Movement	55
civil rights movement	51
American Civil Rights Movement	17
Civil rights movement	10
Civil Rights Movement in the United States	6
Civil Rights Era	3
Civil Rights Movement era	3
United States civil rights movement	3
African-American Civil Rights Movement	2
African-American civil rights movement	2
American civil rights era	2
African American civil rights movement	1
American civil rights movement (as activist and supporter)	1
American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s	1
Civil Rights Era in the United States	1
Civil Rights era	1
Civil rights movement in the United States	1
Southern civil rights movement	1
U.S. civil rights movement	1
United States Civil Rights Movement	1
Voting Rights Movement	1
civil rights movement (symbolically)	1
civil rights movement in the United States	1
modern American Civil Rights Movement	1

Statements (76)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil rights movement ⓘ political movement ⓘ social movement ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endTime	late 1960s ⓘ
hasEffect	cultural shift against overt racism in public life ⓘ expansion of voting rights in the United States ⓘ greater federal enforcement of civil rights laws ⓘ increased political representation of African Americans ⓘ
hasPart	Albany Movement ⓘ Birmingham campaign ⓘ Chicago Freedom Movement ⓘ Freedom Rides ⓘ Freedom Summer ⓘ Greensboro sit-ins ⓘ Little Rock Integration Crisis ⓘ surface form: Little Rock school desegregation crisis March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ⓘ Montgomery bus boycott ⓘ Poor People’s Campaign ⓘ Selma to Montgomery marches ⓘ
ideology	integrationism ⓘ racial equality ⓘ social justice ⓘ
influenced	24th Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ Civil Rights Act of 1957 ⓘ Civil Rights Act of 1960 ⓘ Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ Fair Housing Act of 1968 ⓘ Voting Rights Act of 1965 ⓘ desegregation of public schools in the United States ⓘ end of Jim Crow laws ⓘ subsequent social justice movements in the United States ⓘ
keyFigure	A. Philip Randolph ⓘ Bayard Rustin ⓘ Diane Nash ⓘ Ella Baker ⓘ Fannie Lou Hamer ⓘ James Farmer ⓘ John Lewis ⓘ Malcolm X ⓘ Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ Medgar Evers ⓘ Rosa Parks ⓘ Roy Wilkins ⓘ Thurgood Marshall ⓘ Whitney Young ⓘ
keyOrganization	Black churches in the American South ⓘ Congress of Racial Equality ⓘ NAACP ⓘ National Urban League ⓘ Southern Christian Leadership Conference ⓘ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ
location	Southern United States ⓘ surface form: American South Birmingham, Alabama, United States ⓘ surface form: Birmingham, Alabama Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ surface form: Chicago, Illinois Greensboro, North Carolina ⓘ Jackson, Mississippi ⓘ Montgomery, Alabama ⓘ Selma, Alabama ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ
mainGoal	end racial discrimination against African Americans ⓘ end racial segregation in the United States ⓘ enforce constitutional rights of African Americans ⓘ secure equal rights under the law for African Americans ⓘ
opposed	Jim Crow laws ⓘ disenfranchisement of African American voters ⓘ racial segregation ⓘ racial violence and lynching ⓘ
startTime	mid-1950s ⓘ
usedMethod	boycotts ⓘ civil disobedience ⓘ legal challenges ⓘ marches ⓘ nonviolent resistance ⓘ sit-ins ⓘ voter registration drives ⓘ

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