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Civil rights movement
The rights of a country’s citizens are called civil rights. Not until about 100 years after the end of slavery did African Americans gain anything close to full civil rights. The struggle for those rights in the United States, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, is known as the civil rights movement.
Key Events of United States Feminism During the 1960s
Timeline of events throughout the Sixties regarding civil rights of women and African Americans.
Standing up for Change: African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement
As far back as the 19th century, African American women fought for civil rights. They resisted slavery. They spoke out against racism. They established women’s clubs to improve conditions for African Americans.

Civil rights supporters carrying placards at the March on Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963.

Encyclopædia Britannica. (n.d.). civil rights movement: March on Washington . [image]. Britannica School. Retrieved May 2, 2023, from https://school-eb-com-au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/assembly/view/117711#

Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.
Civil Rights Movement Timeline
Timeline outlining the groundbreaking changes for civil rights.
The civil rights movement was an organised effort by Black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law. It began in the late 1940s and ended in the late 1960s. Although tumultuous at times, the movement was mostly nonviolent and resulted in laws to protect every American’s constitutional rights, regardless of colour, race, sex or national origin.

Outlines the early days of the Civil Rights movement, the context of the movement and reflection on America in the 1950s.

Crash Course US History. (2013). Civil rights and the 1950s [Video]. ClickView. https://clickv.ie/w/VPav

Radicalised by their experiences for Civil Rights, women began see there needed to be a women's liberation movement.