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Wednesday 14 October 2015

1964 Oct 14 Rev. Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of non-violence.

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition)
2015, Pages 691–694

Civil Rights Movements


doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.32016-5
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Summary

This article is a revision of the previous edition article by A. Morris, volume 3, pp. 1883–1886, © 2001, Elsevier Ltd.

Abstract

This article explores the importance of the US Civil Rights Movement (1954–68), which originated in the American South and used nonviolent direct action to confront Jim Crow laws and regulations in an effort to force the federal government to dismantle the system of racial segregation and inequality.

Keywords

  • African Americans;
  • Black Americans;
  • Brown v. Board of Education;
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964;
  • Civil Rights Movement;
  • Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.;
  • Emancipation Proclamation;
  • Jim Crow;
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP);
  • Plessy v. Ferguson;
  • Slavery;
  • Voting Rights Act of 1964
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