Talk:American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)

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[edit] Merge of Key Events data

There is already an article Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement and the additions should be merged into there. Simesa 01:08, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

First, though, we have to ask - is this information from a copyrighted source? Simesa 01:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Copyvio "Key Event" Data

User Mitchumch entered the extensive "key event" data, and later agreed to provide sources. User Mitchumch is no longer on Wikipedia, and at least one of his entries has proven to be completely bogus. I have advised an administrator. Simesa 02:23, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Timeline

This article had a long and very informative timeline. It's not generally Wikipedia's policy to put long itmelines in an article, especially if there already is a timeline page. I put the info there (there is a subpage exclusively for that list now: HERE). If you can help integrate the list to the main list, that would be great!Avraham 16:14, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

That info appears to have come from a copyrighted website (see the Discussion page for Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement). I haven't worked through the info yet to see what can be salvaged. Simesa 11:29, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merger with 19th-century African-American civil rights activists

I don't think we can merge something that smells so strongly like a Copyright Violation. In any event, I think a better resolution would be to have seperate articles for these individuals and place entries for them in Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement. Simesa 11:29, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreeing with this. Of course, the article has it stands has many problems (The 20th century civil rights movement involved a lot more than the admirable Mrs. Parks, for example). JChap2007 18:26, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Civil rights in the military

We have the church, the labor movement, economic segregation... so should there be a brief section on civil rights in the U.S. military, with a reference to "Main article: Military history of African Americans" ? Actually civil rights isn't just African-Americans but encompasses other minorities such as women and gays, which seems like even more reasons to include such a section... --Bookgrrl 18:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name of this article?

Just out of curiosity, why did the name of this article (and the matching one for 1955 and later) get changed from African-American Civil Rights to American Civil Rights? The entire article, without exception, is about racial issues. There's not a single thing about other minorities' civil rights struggles. So why not just call this "African-American Civil Rights Movement" as it used to be? --Bookgrrl 01:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

For a variety of reasons, this is the correct title.
  • The term "American Civil Rights Movement" is used about six times as often as "African-American Civil Rights Movement".
  • The term African-American was not invented until the 1980s. (Really.)
  • Leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been abhorred by the notion that they were seeking what Wallace, Reagan and others would denigrate as "special rights" -- they were defending the rights of all by restoring the rights of the disenfranchised.
  • The rights of other minorities were similarly marginalized, including Jews, Hispanics and Asians. Leaders such as King made a point of crossing lines of color to build a broader movement, and recruiting labor unions, anti-poverty groups and white churches with gusto, yet avoiding paternalism within the tent.
  • Really, again, it was just called "the civil rights movement".--Dhartung | Talk 08:37, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I have deleted "blacks went to canada to buy beer for the troops because southern and nothern merchants would not sell them" from the first paragraph as it did not make sense. Perhaps a miss-insert? (Iswyn 17:13, 25 March 2007 (UTC))

I can't find a way to correct the icon-covered text in the first paragraph (tried several times). soverman 1:54 30 June 07 (UTC)

[edit] 40%??

Referring to schools for blacks started by Jews, the article states "At one time some forty percent of southern blacks were learning at these schools." I assume this means 40% of southern blacks who were enrolled in colleges? I find it very unlikely that 40% of southern blacks attended college at this time... -Elmer Clark 03:19, 1 December 2007 (UT </WHAT WERE THE GOALS?/>/WHAT DID IT DO IN THE 1920'S AND 1930'S?/WHO SUPPORTED/OPPOSED?/