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Overview of the Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement began in the 1940s with African-Americans advocating for better jobs and legal protections, highlighted by events like the March on Washington and the murder of Emmett Till. Key legislative milestones include the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which aimed to eliminate discrimination and disenfranchisement. The document also discusses the diffusion of tactics to other movements, such as labor rights, LGBTQ rights, and immigrant rights.

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Overview of the Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement began in the 1940s with African-Americans advocating for better jobs and legal protections, highlighted by events like the March on Washington and the murder of Emmett Till. Key legislative milestones include the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which aimed to eliminate discrimination and disenfranchisement. The document also discusses the diffusion of tactics to other movements, such as labor rights, LGBTQ rights, and immigrant rights.

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The Civil Rights Movement

✤ The Civil Rights Movement began with mobilization of African-Americans in the 1940s for better jobs and legal protection against
discrimination. The return of African-American servicemen who were subject to Jim Crow and poor treatment galvanized worker’s
movements and strikes, as well as A. Philip Randolph’s “March on Washington” movement

✤ FDR’s Executive Order 8802 (1941) desegregating the defense industr

✤ Truman’s Executive Order 9981 (1948) desegregating the Arm

✤ Organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedo

✤ In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy from Chicago, was murdered in Mississippi while visiting relatives. His open casket was
displayed to the world in Jet Magazine, and the pictures galvanized support for civil rights of African-Americans

✤ In 1963, Martin Luther King delivers his “I Have a Dream" speech as part of the March on Washington

✤ In 1964, Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in public accommodations

✤ In 1965, the Selma to Montgomery March for Voter Registration ends in violence

✤ “Among Selma’s 15,000 black citizens of voting age, only 335 were registered to vote. On March 7, 1965, 600 civil rights protesters
attempted to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery. On what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” they were
stopped by police using tear gas, night sticks, and whips” (“The Senate Passes the Voting Rights Act,” [Link])

✤ The Voting Rights Act of 1965 declares poll taxes, literacy tests, and other disenfranchisement based on race illegal.
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The Civil Rights Frame

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b. there is a perception of “relative deprivation

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Diffusion of Tactics
1. Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike (1965

a. Filipino and Mexican-American farmworkers organized for better pay, working conditions, and healthcare

b. Cesar Chavez went on a hunger strike to dramatize the importance of worker rights

c. Table Grape Boycot

2. LGBTQ Movement (Stonewall, 1969

a. Prop 22 (CA, 2000) and Prop 8 (CA, 2008

b. Obergefell v. Hodges (2015

3. Immigrant Rights Movement (2006) against criminalizing immigrant (H.R. 4437)

a. “Si Se Puede” (UFW origin

b. “Today we march, tomorrow we vote.

c. SB1070 (AZ, 2010) v. DACA (2012)

4. Black Lives Matter Movement (2013)


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