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The Civil Rights Movement was at a peak from 1955-1965. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches, ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to...
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www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/
www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/
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Civil Rights Movement history, personal stories, discussions & analysis, commentaries, and contact information by and for veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement (CORE, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, and similar organizations) ... [Civil Rights Movement buttons]
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The history of the civil rights movement in the United States actually begins with the early efforts of the fledgling democracy. ... A virtual tour of the heart of the civil rights movement...
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cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html
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Two whites and one black were murdered during the Selma,Alabama demonstrations in 1965. Such violence against white and black civil rights activists was commonplace. In 1968, Martin Luther King,Jr., the recognized leader of the civil rights movement, was assassinated.
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www.angelfire.com/mo/keefeblackhistory/rights.html
www.angelfire.com/mo/keefeblackhistory/rights.html
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Civil rights movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Civil Rights Movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. It was accompanied by much civil unrest and popular rebellion....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement
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When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, and was arrested in December 1955, she set off a train of events that generated a momentum the civil rights movement had never before experienced.
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memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html
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Links: American Civil Rights Movement ... National Civil Rights Museum; Voices of the Civil Right Era ... We shall overcome: historic places of the civil rights movement.
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www.nyise.org/blackhistory/
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Parks, Rosa Louise McCauley (1913- ) African American civil rights activist, who is often called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus triggered the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956 and set in motion the test case for the desegregation of public transportation.
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www.africanaonline.com/civil_rights.htm
www.africanaonline.com/civil_rights.htm
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