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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Parks → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Rosa Parks

Roy Wilkins → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Civil Rights Movement

Stevie Wonder → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Stevland Hardaway Judkins → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Stokely Carmichael → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil rights movement

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Suze Rotolo → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Turnaround Tuesday → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement in the United States

Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Walter Reuther → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Whitney Young → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Wyatt Tee Walker → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Yolanda King → movement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Police Chief Laurie Pritchett → movementContext → American civil rights movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Laurie Pritchett

President’s Award → notableDomain → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Alfred Daniel Williams King → notableWork → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Birmingham campaign → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

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

this entity surface form: Southern civil rights movement

Chicago Freedom Movement → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: United States Civil Rights Movement

Children's Crusade → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Children's Crusade (1963)

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

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

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Council of Federated Organizations → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Freedom Rides → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Jackson Movement (1960s civil rights campaign) → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Jackson Movement

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil rights movement

Montgomery bus boycott → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Nashville sit-ins → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Nashville sit-ins → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: African-American civil rights movement

Poor People’s Campaign → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Ray West → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: African-American civil rights movement

Selma to Montgomery marches → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Civil Rights Movement

St. Augustine movement → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Summit Agreement of 1966 → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

University of Alabama integration crisis → partOf → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Abraham Joshua Heschel → participantIn → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Amelia Boynton Robinson → participantIn → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Voting Rights Movement

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. → participantIn → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Eldridge Cleaver → participatedIn → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Josephine Baker → participatedIn → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Louis Gossett Jr. → participatedIn → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: American civil rights movement (as activist and supporter)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference → participatedIn → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

U.S. state of Georgia → playedRoleIn → American civil rights movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Georgia

Georgia → playedRoleIn → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Clarendon County, South Carolina → playsRoleIn → American civil rights movement ⓘ

Asian American literature → relatedMovement → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: civil rights movement

Executive Order 8802 → relatedTo → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Executive Order 9981 → relatedTo → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

FEPC → relatedTo → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement in the United States

Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → relatedTo → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement

Pub.L. 89–110 → relatedTo → American civil rights movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Civil Rights Movement