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Feb 4, 2019 · The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) and some Nationalists in Derry had advised against the march. The march was modelled on Martin Luther King's Selma to Montgomery march. The first day involved a walk from Belfast to Antrim.
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Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). (1978)...
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The civil rights campaign began in the mid-1960s as an...
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The History of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Northern...
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The History of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Northern...
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Extract from a newspaper interview with Lord Brookeborough...
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Statement by Terence O'Neill, Prime Minister of Northern...
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Source: Hamill, D., Pig in the middle: The Army in Northern...
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The People's Democracy March, 1-4 January 1969 . Selected...
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Various reform groups aligned in 1967 to form the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. NICRA led the struggle against discrimination in the late 1960s. Its members were mostly moderate Nationalists but also included liberal Protestants and radical IRA plants.
The Northern Ireland civil rights movement dates to the early 1960s, when a number of initiatives emerged in Northern Ireland which challenged the inequality and discrimination against ethnic Irish Catholics that was perpetrated by the Ulster Protestant establishment (composed largely of Protestant Ulster loyalists and unionists).
March from Selma 1965. Notable events in the civil rights movement in the 1950s were the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Little Rock. The 1960s saw Sit Ins, the Freedom Rides and protests in...
Dec 5, 2018 · At a civil rights march in Derry on October 5, 1968, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) viciously attacked non-violent demonstrators. No one was killed, but many were injured and hospitalized....
Nov 12, 2021 · In the 1960s, a new generation of politically and socially conscious young Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland started looking to the civil rights movement in America as a model for...
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Sep 27, 2022 · The Northern Ireland civil rights movement organized large-scale marches, sit-ins, and occupations that placed severe pressure on the state and provoked British government intervention to force the Northern Ireland government to make concessions.