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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this entity surface form: civil rights movement

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Albany Movement → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Amelia Boynton Robinson → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Andrew Young → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

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Archibald Grimké → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

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Bernard Lafayette → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Bernice → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Bernice King

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Betty Shabazz → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

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Black Panther Party → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

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Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965) → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Bob Moses → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Bobby Seale → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

C. K. Steele → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

C. L. Franklin → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Carole Robertson → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Catherine Burks-Brooks → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Charles Person → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Charles Steele Jr. → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Children's March → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Civil Rights Movement

Christine King Farris → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Claudette Colvin → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Congress of Racial Equality → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

CORE → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Congress of Racial Equality

James Robinson → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Congress of Racial Equality

Coordinating Council of Community Organizations → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Coretta Scott King → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Civil Rights Movement

Curtis Mayfield → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Cynthia Wesley → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Civil Rights Movement

Daddy King → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Daisy Bates → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Dallas County Voters League → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Dexter Scott King → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Dexter → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Dexter Scott King

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Diane Nash → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

E. D. Nixon → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Elizabeth Eckford → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Ella Baker → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Ezell Blair Jr. → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Fannie Lou Hamer → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil rights movement

First Baptist Church (Selma, Alabama) → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Franklin McCain → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Fred Shuttlesworth → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Gordon Parks → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Greensboro Student Executive Committee for Justice → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Greensboro sit-ins → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

H. Rap Brown → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil rights movement