A mass movement in America, lasting from the early 1950s to the late 1960s, through which African Americans used nonviolent protest and legal action to secure social equality and educational and votin [..]

(~1954-1968) process to establish equal rights for all people in the United States, focusing on the rights of African Americans.

Mass movement for political, social and economic equality by African Americans during the 1960s, mostly in the segregated cities of the Southern United States.

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 all citizens of United States. It has been made up of many movements, though it is often used to refer to the struggles between 1955 and 1968 to end discrimination against African-Americans and to en [..]

Movimiento de Derechos Civiles

Historically, the term "Civil Rights Movement" has referred to efforts toward achieving true equality for African-Americans in all facets of society, but today the term "civil rights mo [..]

legal and other efforts led by African Americans against racism and segregation and for the enactment of legislation ensuring their full civil and human rights. The modern Civil Rights movement dates to the mid-1950s and proceeded in earnest throughout the 1960s.

Though the civil rights movement arguably began with the fight to abolish slavery in the 1800s, the historical era named the Civil Rights Movement took place in the 1950s and 1960s. The United States civil rights movement was the struggle for racial equality. Primarily through non-violent protest, those involved in the civil rights movement were ab [..]

Started in the 50's the civil rights movement gathered steam in the early '60s with marches, passive resistance and speeches. Foremost among the leaders were Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar E [..]