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    The Northern Student Movement (NSM) was an American civil rights organization that drew inspiration from sit-ins and lunch counter protests led by students...
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    The Sunflower Student Movement is associated with a protest movement driven by a coalition of students and civic groups that came to a head between March...
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    Nashville Student Movement was an organization that challenged racial segregation in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil Rights Movement. It was created...
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    The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign or student sit-in movement, were a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North...
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  • The Atlanta Student Movement was formed in February 1960 in Atlanta by students of the campuses Atlanta University Center (AUC). It was led by the Committee...
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    father was hesitant. Bridges was born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was decided three months and twenty-two days...
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    A student is a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution. In the United Kingdom and most commonwealth countries, a "student" attends...
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    commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro...
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    Los Angeles in 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee decided to cut ties with the mainstream civil rights movement. They argued that blacks...
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    the protest movement was dominated by students. The most prominent manifestation was the May 1968 protests in France, in which students linked up with...
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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 Lily-White Movement was an anti-black political movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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  • of Ireland have Students' Unions. National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland (NUS-USI), the student movement in Northern Ireland was formed...
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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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    voting rights. A college graduate, Evers became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. Following the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court...
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    nonviolent discipline. Forman accused Bevel of driving a wedge between the student movement and the local black churches. The argument was resolved only when both...
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  • Selma (film) (category Civil rights movement in film)
    television and the wounded are treated at Brown Chapel, the movement's headquarter church. Movement attorney Fred Gray asks federal Judge Frank Minis Johnson...
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    save the soul of America." In 1961, he spoke of the Civil Rights Movement and student activists' "dream" of equality—"the American Dream ... a dream as...
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  • The Butler (category Civil rights movement in film)
    Central High School in Arkansas. Louis, the elder son, becomes a university student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, although Cecil feels the South...
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    1930s, Muhammad formally established the Nation of Islam, a religious movement that originated under the leadership and teachings of Wallace Fard Muhammad...
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  • The Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania (PASMA) is a revolutionary student movement born at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South...
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    Austin; September 5, 1939) is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of...
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  • NAACP (category Civil rights movement)
    Rights Movement while it was barred from Alabama. New organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC, in 1957) and the Student Nonviolent...
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  • more than 100 students from Albany State College marched from their campus to the courthouse. The first mass meeting of the Albany Movement took place soon...
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  • of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday...
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  • The Northern Ireland civil rights movement dates to the early 1960s, when a number of initiatives emerged in Northern Ireland which challenged the inequality...
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    Civil Rights Movement Archive Sit-ins Spread Across the South ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive Nashville Student Movement ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive Dailey...
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    the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century. It began...
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    was widely published, and became an important text for the civil rights movement in the United States. The letter has been described as "one of the most...
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    Many volunteers, mostly college students and young adults, had been recruited from local communities and northern/western states to work on this project...
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