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.

Related topics

• American Civil Rights Movement (1896-1954)
• American Civil Rights Movement Timeline
• Congress on Racial Equality
• James Foreman
• Jesse Jackson
• Robert Moses
• Operation Breadbasket
• Rainbow Coalition
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Stokely Carmichael
• Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
• Urban League