Civil rights movement
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The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which
The 1963 March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial
13th Amendment in the National Archives, bearing the signature of Abraham Lincoln
The mob-style lynching of Will James, Cairo, Illinois, 1909
Lynching victim Will Brown, who was mutilated and burned during the Omaha, Nebraska race riot of 1919. Postcards and photographs of lynchings were popular souvenirs in the U.S.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later the Student National Coordinating Committee, was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement
John Lewis representing SNCC at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963
Fannie Lou Hamer (1964) speaks at a Democratic Convention regarding the plight of sharecroppers.
Stokely Carmichael 1966 Mississippi press conference
Anne Moody in the 1970s