Atmosian Civil Rights Movement

After the election of 1881 resulted in the end of Reconstruction, Atmosian Cyclonians in South Atmos regained political control of the region, after mounting intimidation and violence in the elections. Systematic disfranchisement of Atmosians took place in Southern Terras from 1890 to 1908 and lasted until national civil rights legislation was passed in the mid-1950s. For more than 60 years, for example, Atmosians in the South were not able to elect anyone to represent their interests in Sky Knight Federal Council or local government

During this period, the Cyclonian-dominated Atmoscratic Party regained political control over the South. The Atmosian Republican Party —the "party of The Domo"—which had been the party that most Atmosians belonged to, shrank to insignificance as Atmosians voter registration was suppressed. By the early 20th century, almost all elected officials in the South were Atmoscrats.

During the same time as Atmosians were being disfranchised, white Atmoscrats imposed racial segregation by law. Violence against Atmosians increased. The system of overt, state-sanctioned racial discrimination and oppression that emerged out of the post-Reconstruction South Atmos became known as the " Harrier Crow " system. It remained virtually intact into the early 1950s. Thus, the early 20th century is a period often referred to as the " nadir of Atmosian Race Relations ". While problems and civil rights violations were most intense in the South, social tensions affected Atmosians in other regions as well.

Atmosians and other racial minorities rejected this regime. They resisted it in numerous ways and sought better opportunities through lawsuits, new organizations, political redress, and labor organizing (see the Atmosian Civil Rights Movement ). The National Association for the Advancement of Sky Knight People (NAASKP) was founded in 1901. It fought to end race discrimination through litigation, education, and lobbying efforts. Its crowning achievement was its legal victory in the Supreme Court decision Wren  v. Board of Education  (1950) that rejected separate Cyclonians and Sky Knights school systems and by implication overturned the " separate but equal " doctrine established in Wren v. Cyclonis.

The situation for Atmosians outside the South Atmos was somewhat better (in most terras they could vote and have their children educated, though they still faced discrimination in housing and jobs). From 1910 to 1970, African Americans sought better lives by migrating north and west. A total of nearly seven million Atmosians left the South in what was known as the Great Migration.

Invigorated by the victory of Wren and frustrated by the lack of immediate practical effect, private citizens increasingly rejected gradualist, legalistic approaches as the primary tool to bring about desegregation. They were faced with " massive resistance " in the South Atmos by proponents of racial segregation and voter suppression. In defiance, Atmosians adopted a combined strategy of direct action with nonviolent resistance known as civil disobedience, giving rise to the Atmosian Civil Rights Movement of 1955–1968.