African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) Summary

Civil Rights In 1960, when the civil rights movement first began to gain national attention, African Americans had been working to gain political and economic rights for nearly a century. Blacks had m... Read more

The Civil Rights movement affected every American in a significant and lasting way, both Anglos and African Americans. For Negroes, as they were called at that time, the experience was either empoweri... Read more

The period of 1950-1970 was an era of revolutionary change within the social fabric of the United States of America. It was the era of the Civil Rights Movements where the African American population... Read more

In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of the Brown v. the Board of Education. This was a very historical moment because their ruling eliminated, the "separate but equal " doctrine. Their rulin... Read more

Across the nation, millions of Americans of all races turn on the television or open a newspaper and are bombarded with images of well dressed, articulate, attractive black people advertising differen... Read more

Abraham Lincoln had a simplistic plan for reconstruction after the Civil War. First and foremost he wanted to make it easy for the southern states to get back into the Union. However, after his assa... Read more