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SNCC Actions 1960–1970 (map) SNCC 1960 – 1966: Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Retrieved May 2, 2005. crmvet.org - the official website for the Civil Rights Movement Archive; SNCC Documents Online collection of original SNCC documents ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive. Americus Movement, Civil Rights Digital Library.
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.
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.
Revolutionary Action Movement (1962) Umbra (1963) Soulbook (1964) Black Arts Movement (1965) Watts riots (1965) Assassination of Malcolm X (1965) The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) Black Dialogue (1965) US Organization (1965)
The Chicago Freedom Movement was the most ambitious civil rights campaign in the Northern United States, lasted from mid-1965 to August 1966, and is largely credited with inspiring the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
The Civil Rights Movement began the day Black people stepped foot on American soil. 9. Marching was an acceptable form of protest. ... In 1966, 54% of whites felt they were “not justified ...
The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 5, 1966, [1] intending to make a solitary walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi via the Mississippi Delta, starting at Memphis's Peabody Hotel and proceeding to the Mississippi state line, then continuing through, respectively, the ...
Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Chicago, during which he is struck by a rock thrown from an angry white mob. Caesars Palace hotel and casino opens on the Las Vegas Strip. August 6 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska, killing all 42 on board. August 7 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.