CIVIL RIGHTS: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a decades-long struggle by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States.
CARTOON: CIVIL RIGHTS 1953. - 'As American Goes, So Goes the World.'
American cartoon by D.R. Fitzpatrick, 1953, on the emphasis in President Eisenhower's inauguration speech on the importance of preserving freedom at home as well as abroad.
MISSISSIPPI: SIT-IN; 1963. J.L. Ray; deputy police chief of Jackson; Mississippi; escorts four African American women; arrested for attempting to sit-in at a downtown cafe; May 1963.
Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 31 Aug 2017.
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Civil Rights March - Crowds petition for civil rights at the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles.
Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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GREENSBORO SIT-IN, 1960. - Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Billy Smith, and Clarence Henderson wait for service on the second day of their sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's, Greensboro, North Carolina, February 2, 1960.
Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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Civil Rights Movement
Ellicott, Karen and Timothy Gall, eds. “Civil Rights Movement.” American History Online, Lincoln Library Press, 2018. FactCite, https://www.factcite.com/useh/4000597.html. Accessed 20 Oct. 2022.
African Americans Fight for Civil Rights
Hillstrom, Laurie Collier. “African Americans Fight for Civil Rights.” Defining Moments Online, Lincoln Library Press, 2015. FactCite, https://www.factcite.com/definingmoments/33021.html. Accessed 20 Oct. 2022.