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Civil Rights Movement: Timeline, Key Events & Leaders | HISTORY

The civil rights movement was a struggle for justice and equality for African Americans that took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s.

Civil rights movement - Wikipedia

After years of direct actions and grassroots protests, the movement made its largest legislative and judicial gains during the 1960s. The movement's major ...

American civil rights movement | Definition, Protests, Activists, & Facts

American civil rights movement, mass protest against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern U.S. that came to national ...

The Civil Rights Movement | U.S. History Primary Source Timeline

A nationwide movement for equal rights for African Americans and for an end to racial segregation and exclusion arose across the United States.

The Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1964

African American mass demonstrations, televised racial violence, and the federally enforced desegregation of higher education institutions, as ...

The Modern Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration

Kennedy defined the civil rights crisis as moral, as well as constitutional and legal. He announced that major civil rights legislation would be submitted to ...

Milestones Of The Civil Rights Movement | American Experience - PBS

Milestones Of The Civil Rights Movement · The Supreme Court Declares Bus Segregation Unconstitutional (1956) · The 1960 Presidential Election · The ...

Civil Rights Movement Timeline ‑ Timeline & Events | HISTORY

The civil rights movement was an organized effort by black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law.

Civil Rights Movement - ADL

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities and ...

A Long Struggle for Freedom > Civil Rights Era (1950–1963)

In the spring of 1961, SNCC emerged as a major force in the civil rights movement through its involvement in the Freedom Rides and other nonviolent protests ...

The Civil Rights Movement: an introduction (article) - Khan Academy

The twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement emerged as a response to the unfulfilled promises of emancipation, partly as a result of the experiences of black ...

Civil Rights Leaders | NAACP

Civil Rights Leaders · Carter G. Woodson · Charles Hamilton Houston · Harry T. and Hariette Moore · James Weldon Johnson · Julian Bond · Martin Luther King, Jr. · Mary ...

The Civil Rights Movement - YouTube

The civil rights movement was an organized effort where African-Americans united and rallied to put black progressiveness at the forefront ...

Civil Rights Movement - New Georgia Encyclopedia

Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil rights and the wider national struggle for racial equality.

National Civil Rights Museum | At the Lorraine Motel

The National Civil Rights Museum, located in Memphis, TN, explores the history of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact on our culture today.

Civil Rights Trail

Chart the course of the Civil Rights Movement through the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. Discover the destinations important to the Civil Rights Movement.

Civil Rights - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Those rights, themselves the product of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, aim to protect all Americans against adverse and discriminatory ...

The Civil Rights Movement: 1919-1960s, Freedom's Story ...

The movement nevertheless cohered around the aim of eliminating the system of Jim Crow segregation and the reform of some of the worst aspects of racism.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement - Britannica

The civil rights movement came to national prominence in the United States during the mid-1950s and continued to challenge racial segregation and ...

Interactive Civil Rights Timeline: 1945-1954 - Truman Library Institute

The enactment of Executive Order 9981 paves the way for the Civil Rights Movement, including the desegregation of public schools. In Brown vs. Board of ...