Civil Rights Movement
Century-long struggle against legally mandated structures of white supremacy that culminated with mass protests in the 1960s and secured the enactment of national civil rights legislation.
Civil Rights Movement
Century-long struggle against legally mandated structures of white supremacy that culminated with mass protests in the 1960s and secured the enactment of national civil rights legislation.
- Patricia Sullivan
A version of this article originally appeared in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
