American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to primarily African American citizens of United States. There have been many movements on behalf of other groups in the U.S. over time, but the term is often used to refer to the struggles between 1955 and 1968 to end discrimination against African-Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South. See African American for information on how various terms have been used at that time period for African Americans.

External links

• What Was Jim Crow? (The racial caste system that precipitated the Civil Rights Movement)
• History and images of the sit-in movement
• "You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow!" PBS documentary on first Freedom Ride, in 1947
• Materials relating to the desegregation of Ole Miss in 1962
• Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida from the State Archives of Florida
• At the River I Stand California Newsreel documentary on Civil Rights and labor rights in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation workers' strike. 56 minutes, 1993
• Civil Rights Movement Veterans website bios, photos, and testimony from nearly 300 people who fought for civil rights in the Deep South of the mid-1960s
• The Georgia Movement