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African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) refers to a set of events and reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans; this article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South. By 1966, the emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged and gradually eclipsed the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from white authority.
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