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...as a theme song for several social activism movements, most famously the [[Civil Rights Movement]], the antiwar movement and the anti-nuclear movement (The refrain, "the an

...or one of the largest collections of archival materials on the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.

===The Civil Rights Movement=== In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, Mexican-Americans and Hispanic-Americans noticed that they were being forg

...as the "Ominous Crime Act"). Like many white Southerners, Ervin opposed [[civil rights movement|civil rights]] legislation; he also opposed the [[Equal Rights Amendment]].

...[[Martin Luther King Jr.]] during the [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[civil rights movement]] of the 1960's. After King's assassination in 1968, Abernathy led the [[Po ..., 1986)</ref> Their goal was to form an organization that would supply the civil rights movement with sustained leadership.

...k[ed] the injustices of American racism long before it was taken up by the civil rights movement".<ref name=Times/>

....]] state of [[Alabama (U.S. state)|Alabama]], and a major center in the [[Civil Rights Movement]] of the mid 20th century, including the Montgomery bus boycott and the Sel

...ay for [[Racial integration|integration]] and was a major victory of the [[civil rights movement]],<ref>{{Cite web | website= Civil Rights Movement Archive

The '''Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)''' was formed as part of the U.S. civil rights movement in 1971. Its first site was Montgomery, Alabama, where a number of major pr

==Civil Rights Movement as "new abolitionists"== The [[Civil Rights Movement]] of the 1960s had a major impact on historians--as one young historian [[H

...ncouraged to become involved in housing action groups and, eventually, the Civil Rights movement, which they successfully infiltratedand used as the major vehicle for their ...4 to 1965 are often regarded as the '''Civil Rights Revolution''', or '''[[Civil Rights Movement]]''' in the [[United States of America]].

...doctrine of the "[[separate but equal]]" and helped the launching of the [[Civil Rights Movement]] of the 1960s.

* Egerton, John. ''Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South.'' (1994).

Active in the American [[Civil Rights Movement]],he was an elected delegate to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

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The League became very influential in the [[Civil Rights Movement]], an act the organization saw as a necessity. It was a strong supporter o ...several conferences, it was decided that the only way to truly embrace the Civil Rights Movement was to allow men to enter the League.<ref>"The League of Women Voters" ''Po

...Jr. called ''The Strange Career of Jim Crow'' "the historical bible of the civil rights movement."

...]] culture in the United States. It was influential in the [[United States Civil Rights Movement]] and has influenced the development of most forms of popular music, includ

...950s by black leaders like Baptist minister [[Martin Luther King]] and the civil rights movement. After 1980 it weakened again as a major force inside mainstream churches;