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This is a timeline of the civil rights movement in the United States, a nonviolent mid-20th century freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement of constitutional rights for people of color.
Civil rights in the United States include noted legislation and organized efforts to abolish public and private acts of racial discrimination against Native Americans, African Americans, Asians, Latin Americans, women, the homeless, minority religions, and other groups. The history of the United States has been marked by a continuous struggle ...
Over the following century, various efforts were made by African Americans to secure their legal and civil rights, such as the civil rights movements of 1865–1896 and of 1896–1954. The movement was characterized by nonviolent mass protests and civil disobedience following highly publicized events such as the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955.
The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in ...
A proposed "Civil Rights Act of 1966" had collapsed completely because of its fair housing provision. [171] Mondale commented that: A lot of civil rights [legislation] was about making the South behave and taking the teeth from George Wallace, [but] this came right to the neighborhoods across the country. This was civil rights getting personal ...
The tour is part of the Harford Civil Rights Project, an oral history collection and mobile application created by James Karmel, history professor at Harford Community College, and students at ...
Timeline of disability rights in the United States; Timeline of African-American history; Timeline of the civil rights movement; Timeline of women's suffrage in Texas; To Establish Justice; Tulsa race massacre
Columnist Margaret Whitt embarked on a civil rights tour in Alabama, visiting historical sites and new memorials by the Equal Justice Initiative.