History A-Level
Southern-based campaigning
What Southern-based campaigning means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Southern-based campaigning
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Campaigning that used nonviolent direct action, boycotts, sit-ins and marches to challenge segregation and disfranchisement, with organisations such as the SCLC, SNCC and CORE pressuring federal government.
Topics that use Southern-based campaigning
- The quest for civil rights, 1917–80 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Black Power
- Civil rights legislation
- gay rights movement
- hispanic American campaigns
- limits to success
- Native American campaigns
- Northern migration (1917–32)
- Segregation and life in the South
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