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The feminist movement was a series of political campaigns to improve women's rights. This movement focused on women's rights, pay, suffrage, domestic violence, and sexual harassment and abuse.
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The NAACP also known as the National Association of Colored People was a civil rights organization in the US. It formed bi-racial justice for African Americans.
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The black power movement was a political movement to achieve a form of power for the blacks. This movement also represented social movements.
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Brown vs. Board of education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case where the court declared laws. These laws established separate schools for black and white students.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 13 month long process that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public busses is unconstitutional. It was a protest campaign against racial segregation on public transportation.
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Counterculture was an "anti-establishment phenomenon" that spread throughout the western world during the 1960s. New cultural forms and alternative lifestyles emerged.
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The Latino movement was also known as the Chicano movement. It extended the rights and empowerment of the Mexican Americans.
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The hippies rejected the mainstream American life. This movement spread to many countries.
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The fashion in the 1960s was very different from today. One example of the fashion is the Afro.
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African American spirituals, folk, and gospel music were very popular during this
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In the early 1960s, the Freedom riders rode interstate buses into southern US. 436 people participated in these rides.
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Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. He co-founded the national workers association in 1962.
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In 1963, Alabama launched one of the most influential campaigns of the Civil Rights movement. There were violent attacks on men, women, and children using police dogs and fire hoses.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, religion, sex. color, or national origin. This act forbade all discrimination in the United States.
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Martin Luther King led thousands of demonstrators on a 5 day march to Selma, Alabama. There, local African Americans campaigned for voting rights.
