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The Great Migration
the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, it had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. They left their homes because of unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that occurred during the First World War. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. -
The Chicano movement
Led by Cesar Chavez, The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement or El Movimiento, was a civil rights movement extending the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.