Recent Posts Tagged With 'civil rights movement'

• The Ku Klux Klan

  Posted on Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 at 09:22 in black history, Ku Klux Klan, kkk, civil rights movement, civil rights act 1871

  After the American Civil War in the Reconstruction Era, a group named the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded by veterans from the Confederate Army in 1865. The name Ku Klux Klan is derived from the Greek word ‘kyklos’ (κυκλος) meaning &...

• The Jim Crow Laws

  Posted on Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 at 08:31 in jim crow laws, black history, civil rights movement, civil rights act of 1875, homer plessy, national voting rights act of 1965

  From 1877 until 1965, many states in the USA instituted what were known as the Jim Crow Laws which segregated blacks and whites in daily life. The origin of the name is unclear, but it is thought that it may have come from a song called ‘Jump J...

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

  Posted on Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 at 08:08 in black history, naacp, civil rights movement, rosa parks, montgomery bus boycott, montgomery improvement association

  From the late 19th Century, until the mid-1960s, the Jim Crow Laws in the USA stipulated racial segregation on public transport. By the 1950s, blacks had significantly more freedom than they had had in previous decades; however, they still experience...

• The American Civil Rights Movement

  Posted on Sunday August 24th, 2008 at 16:17 in core, civil rights movement, sclc, sncc, brown v board of education (1954), plessy v ferguson (1896)

  In modern society, equal rights for women and different races are often taken for granted. Sadly, this was not always the case, and during the 19th and 20th centuries, a movement arose which sought to provide rights and recognition for African-Americ...