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Section sizes

Section size for Civil rights movement (73 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	11,481	11,481
Background	89	33,244
American Civil War and Reconstruction era	4,485	4,485
Disenfranchisement after Reconstruction	11,104	11,104
National issues	12,120	12,120
Protests begin	5,446	5,446
History	208	131,995
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954	10,063	10,063
Emmett Till's murder, 1955	5,860	5,860
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott, 1955–1956	3,532	3,532
Little Rock Nine, 1957	2,473	2,473
Method of nonviolence and nonviolence training	4,661	4,661
Sit-ins, 1958–1960	9,028	9,028
Freedom Rides, 1961	7,826	7,826
Voter registration organizing	5,108	5,108
Integration of Mississippi universities, 1956–1965	6,842	6,842
Albany Movement, 1961–1962	1,581	1,581
Birmingham campaign, 1963	7,134	7,134
"Rising tide of discontent" and Kennedy's response, 1963	9,212	9,212
March on Washington, 1963	5,785	5,785
St. Augustine, Florida, 1963–1964	5,398	5,398
Chester school protests, Spring 1964	5,678	5,678
Freedom Summer, 1964	4,922	4,922
Civil Rights Act of 1964	1,021	1,021
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964	3,685	3,685
Selma Voting Rights Movement	3,060	3,060
Voting Rights Act of 1965	5,417	5,417
Fair housing movements, 1966–1968	3,810	3,810
Nationwide riots of 1967	5,020	5,020
Memphis, King assassination, and Civil Rights Act of 1968	5,187	7,379
Civil Rights Act of 1968	2,192	2,192
Gates v. Collier	4,130	4,130
Legacy	3,162	3,162
Characteristics	251	21,755
African-American women	3,764	5,807
Sexist discrimination	2,043	2,043
Avoiding the "Communist" label	3,943	3,943
Grassroots leadership	1,340	1,340
Tactics and nonviolence	9,113	9,113
Jewish support for the movement	1,301	1,301
Political responses	24	20,287
Truman administration: 1945–1953	2,582	2,582
Eisenhower administration: 1953–1961	2,595	2,595
Kennedy administration: 1961–1963	10,604	10,604
Johnson administration: 1963–1969	2,423	2,423
Foreign political reactions	37	2,059
China	2,022	2,022
Popular reactions	24	42,180
Malcolm X's relationship with the movement, 1964–1965	10,393	10,393
American Jews	4,911	6,507
Public profile	1,596	1,596
Black segregationists	3,652	3,652
"Black Power" militants	9,334	9,334
Native Americans	2,632	2,632
Northern Ireland	1,297	1,297
Soviet Union	2,671	2,671
White moderates	1,052	1,052
White segregationists	4,618	4,618
In popular culture	224	224
Activist organizations	29	1,096
National/regional civil rights organizations	603	603
National economic empowerment organizations	98	98
Local civil rights organizations	366	366
Individual activists	3,352	3,352
See also	600	1,058
History preservation	339	339
Post–civil rights movement	119	119
References	84	84
Bibliography	13,461	28,494
Further reading	8,128	8,128
Historiography and memory	6,070	6,070
Autobiographies and memoirs	835	835
External links	4,682	4,682
Total	299,932	299,932

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