Lectures examining the Civil Rights Movement from Brown v. Board of Education to the civil and human rights initiatives today.

The American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) refers to reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans. 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. Several scholars refer to the Civil Rights Movement as the Second Reconstruction, a name that alludes to the Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Timeline:
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
Mass Action Replaces Litigation, 1955-1965
Tallahassee, Florida Boycott, 1956-1957
Desegregating Little Rock, 1957
The Kennedy Administration, 1960-63
Freedom Riders, 1961
Council of Federated Organizations, 1962
The Albany Movement, 1961-1967
The March on Washington, 1963
The Birmingham Campaign, 1963-1964
Race Riots, 1963-1970
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964
Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1964
Selma and the Voting Rights Act, 1965
Black Power, 1966
Memphis and the Poor People's March, 1968
Gates v. Collier Prison Reform Case, 1970-1971