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The Tricontinental Conference brought together around 500 delegates from the various liberation movements of 82 different countries. [7] Though the full guest list was never published by the conference managers due to security concerns, a US Staff Report compiled out of anxiety over the communist nature of the participants succeeded in naming all delegates and involved countries. [8]
James Bevel initiated and directed the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, and other civil rights movement events of the 1960s. Besides the Children's Crusade and the Selma to Montgomery marches, another illustrious event of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in ...
The civil rights movement [b] was a social movement and campaign in the United States from 1954 to 1968 that aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which was most commonly employed against African Americans.
This is a list of sovereign states in the 1970s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1970 and 31 December 1979. It contains 191 entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty .
The Fair Housing Act is Title VIII of this Civil Rights Act, and bans discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. The law is passed following a series of Open Housing campaigns throughout the urban North, the most significant being the 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement and the organized events in Milwaukee during 1967–68.
1 Before 1966. 2 1966. 3 1967. 4 1968. 5 1969. 6 1970. 7 1971. 8 1972. ... Revolutionary Action Movement (1962) Umbra (1963) Soulbook ... Voting Rights Act Amendments ...
Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley defends the right of students to carry out political organizing on campus. Founder: Mario Savio. Early August. White and black activists gathered near Philadelphia, Mississippi for the memorial service of three civil rights workers. One of the speakers bitterly spoke out against ...
In 1966, only 16 of Oakland's 661 police officers were African American (less than 2.5%). [38] Civil rights tactics proved incapable of redressing these conditions, and the organizations that had "led much of the nonviolent civil disobedience", such as SNCC and CORE, went into decline. [35]