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Movements 1954-1975

By martinuchendu
  • NAACP was formed

    NAACP was formed

    Created by W.E.B. Du Bois

  • CORE was founded

  • integrration of MLB by Jackie Robinson

  • Desegration of armed forces

  • Brown v. Board

    seperate schools for African Americans and whites are against the constitution

  • Counterculture began

    thousands abandoned schools, jobs, and traditional home life

  • sit ins began

    Adrican Americans would stay in pubic places for a long time

  • Hispanic strikes

    farmworkers went on strike in Delando, California

  • N.O.W was formed

    Fought for women rights

  • Crusade for Justice was formed

  • Summer of Love

    Hippies professed peace, love and harmony even with the Vietnam war going on and racism and sexism.

  • Music Festival

    400,000 people attended in New York

  • Roe v. Wade