The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965: Introduction


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The Civil Rights Movement was at a peak from 1955-1965. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches, ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led sit-ins of the 1960s to the huge March on Washington in 1963.

  1. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
  2. Sit-Ins
  3. The Freedom Rides
  4. Birmingham
  5. The March on Washington
  6. Mississippi and Freedom Summer
  7. Selma


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Adapted from The Civil Rights Movement in America: 1955-1965, a web project written as my twelfth grade senior project.

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