Civil rights movement

When one thinks of student-led rebellions and the changes they can create, one typically thinks of the struggles of the twentieth century, such as the civil rights movement or anti-war protests of the sixties. But there have been less dramatic, though no less passionate, rebel-0) lions led by young activists in previous centuries—rebellions that had... 

V Although a number of students were involved in the Civil Rights Movement and some even worked down South on voter registration, most students considered segregation to be a Southern problem and many did not see the discrimination that was rampant on their own campus. 

What were the issues, successes, and failures of the Civil Rights movement from the 1960s through the 1970s ... 

I decided to work at (an historically black college) because this was to be my contribution to the Civil Rights Movement. I decided that since I hadn t marched, I would work at a black college. 

The 1960s (or more accurately, the period from about 1963 to the early 1970s) was marked by profound social, political, and culmral upheaval. In addition to social and political reforms (such as the Civil Rights movement), racial unrest and the war in Vietnam, the decade was also marked by a cultural revolution. As the admittedly simplistic phrase would have it, the 1960s was the era of sex, drugs, and rock n roll. ... 

W. Sue Shafer, University of California, San Francisco We looked at a number of myths. I think one of the myths already mentioned here is that the civil rights movement and the EEO movement have solved all our problems. I think we have heard enough to realize that is not the case. 

The Civil Rights Movement fought to show everyone that all people are created equal this is a right set... 

I always thought I was the smartest kid who ever lived. I was taught to believe that. My parents pushed me on that because they wanted to counter the idea that I was a second-class citizen. I had gone to jail with Dr. King. I was in the civil rights movement. I led a group of children to jail. I was empowered to do that. I really did feel that I could do anything. 

When you get a clear vision of what [death] is and have sort of been there. . . you would also know that marching in the Civil Rights Movement or against the Vietnam War in Washington [is less fearful]... 

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s had a tremendous effect on this country. 

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was the most well-known leader of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. He was assassinated in 1968. King delivered this speech in 1963 at a celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation, before a crowd of 250,000 who had marched to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. 

To challenge the conservative tendencies of contemporary multiracialism and confront the recruitment of the multiracial movement by right-wing political forces determined to undo the gains of the civil rights movement. 

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