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The civil rights movement was an organized effort by black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law. It began in the late 1940s and ended in the late 1960s.
Find out more about the key events that shaped the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, and the founding of the Black Panther Party.
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.
The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.
Learn about some of the important events that took place during the civil rights movement. Eyes on the Prize | Article People Of The Civil Rights Movement: Part 1
By the end of the 1960s, the civil rights movement had brought about dramatic changes in the law and in public practice, and had secured legal protection of rights and freedoms for African Americans that would shape American life for decades to come.
A timeline chronology of the American Civil Rights Movement from the ending of slavery to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1968
White Citizens’ Councils formed in the South to harass blacks engaged in civil rights activities through economic intimidation. Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till murdered in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Thirteen-month Montgomery bus boycott to desegregate the city’s buses began.
The civil rights movement was a struggle to demand social justice for Black Americans in the United States that took place during the 1950s and 1960s. The movement covers a range of campaigns and protests against racial segregation and the prejudiced treatment of African Americans.
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