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Hace 3 días · American civil rights movement, mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to resist racial oppression and abolish the institution of ...
- Montgomery Bus Boycott to The Voting Rights Act
In December 1955 NAACP activist Rosa Parks’s impromptu...
- Du Bois to Brown
Du Bois and prominent African American entertainer Paul...
- Greensboro Sit-in
Greensboro sit-in, act of nonviolent protest against a...
- Loving V. Virginia
The case arose after Richard Loving, a white man, and...
- Freedom Rides
Freedom Rides, political protests against segregation by...
- Watts Riots of 1965
Watts Riots of 1965, series of violent confrontations...
- Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme...
- Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott decision, legal case (1857) in which the U.S....
- Montgomery Bus Boycott to The Voting Rights Act
Hace 1 día · It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.
Hace 1 día · The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
Hace 4 días · Voting Rights Act of 1965. An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
Hace 5 días · True, the American Crow is not especially attractive and certainly not as glamorous as Eau Claire’s famous Eagle, Old Abe. Their “caw” can’t be described as a “song,” and thanks to those haunting scenes in Alfred Hitchcock’s loose adaption of Daphne du Maurier’s “ The Birds ,” crows even have a sinister repute.
Hace 5 días · Here are 18 of the most magnificent buteo and accipiter hawks in the world. 1. of 18. Red-Tailed Hawk. bmse / Getty Images. Named for its distinctive rust-colored tail, the red-tailed hawk ( Buteo...
Hace 4 días · Fourteenth Amendment, amendment (1868) to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”
