Answer to Question #179645 in History for bea

Question

2. In the late 60s and early 70s, religious conservatives in the United States participated in several different political movements which often served as counter-movements against the various civil rights movements of the previous decade? What were some of these political movements, and which movements did they seem to counter?

Answer 1

The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. The movement cohered around the aim of eliminating the system of Jim Crow segregation and the reform of some of the worst aspects of racism in American institutions and life. Some of the political movements included: The Advancement of Colored People (NACCP),The Black Panthers, Chicago Housing Activists, Citizen's Council, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), The FBI and the Civil Rights Movement, Fisk University, and Howard University Student Protesters.

Some of the movements they seemed to counter included, The Klu Klux Klan, the segregated seating on the bus as well as segregated interstate transportation facilities, segregation in public schools, Woolworth’s lunch, the Bloody Sunday, housing discrimination as well as the assassination of civil rights movement leaders.