• The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) was an American civil rights organization in Birmingham, Alabama, which coordinated boycotts and...
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    Fred Shuttlesworth (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    May 1956, Shuttlesworth and Ed Gardner established the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights to take up the work formerly done by the NAACP. The ACMHR...
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    neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama. The church served as headquarters from 1956 to 1961 for the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), which was...
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  • from operating in Alabama. May 28 – The Tallahassee, Florida, bus boycott begins. June 5 – The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) is founded...
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    Jews played an important role in the American civil rights movement, forming alliances with African American leaders and organizations. Jewish individuals...
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    The Civil Rights Memorial is an American memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, created by Maya Lin. The names of 41 people are inscribed on the granite fountain...
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    Association and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR). This organizational form differed from the National Association for the Advancement...
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  • The parental rights movement is a socially conservative political movement aimed at restricting schools' ability to teach or practice certain viewpoints...
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  • Lola Hendricks (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    May 17, 2013) was corresponding secretary for Fred Shuttlesworth's Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights from 1956 to 1963. She assisted Wyatt Walker...
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  • the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. The campaign lasted...
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  • Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1956, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth formed the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)...
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    Voting Rights Museum and Institute". Selma, Alabama. Hartford, Bruce. "Selma, Lord, Selma: The Voting Rights Campaign". Civil Rights Movement Archive...
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    directions for the future. The permanent exhibitions are a self-directed journey through Birmingham's contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and human rights...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. (category People involved with the civil rights movement)
    an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until...
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    to punitive psychiatry. The rights-based strategy of dissent merged with the idea of human rights. The human rights movement included figures such as Valery...
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    Free Speech Movement History of human rights Human rights Human rights awards International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights LGBT rights by country...
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    rights legislation and his anti-segregationist policies, and for support for the civil rights movement and Congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act...
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    Letter from Birmingham Jail (category 1963 in Alabama)
    nonviolent campaign was coordinated by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). On April...
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    The black power movement or black liberation movement was a branch or counterculture within the civil rights movement of the United States, reacting against...
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  • The history of the 1954 to 1968 American civil rights movement has been depicted and documented in film, song, theater, television, and the visual arts...
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    a meeting place for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights during the early 1960s. Carver Theatre...
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    Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), published An Appeal for Human Rights working within and as part of the Civil Rights Movement. Inspired by the...
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    Shady Grove Baptist Church (category Baptist churches in Alabama)
    It is significant for its congregation's participation in the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights rallies for Civil rights in the 1950s and the...
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    partner. In 1962, Jones became general counsel for the Gandhi Society for Human Rights, SCLC's fundraising arm. Later 1962, Jones advised King to write President...
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    The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination...
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  • Lowndes County Freedom Organization (category Civil rights movement)
    active in Fred Shuttlesworth's Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights), and other local leaders. As the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allowed African Americans...
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  • for Human Rights on March 9, 1960. Six days after publication of the document, students in Atlanta united to start the Atlanta Student Movement and initiated...
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    president of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and a leader of the Birmingham campaign during the civil rights movement. The airport carries...
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    Carolina. The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights Movement. African-American...
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    Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement in...
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