civil rights history
Freedom movement scholarship
Civil rights history is the study and record of struggles for equal treatment under the law, particularly by marginalized groups.
In American usage, the term most often refers to the African American freedom movement of the 1950s and 1960s—the marches, court cases, and legislation that dismantled legal segregation.
She teaches civil rights history at the university.
The phrase also applies to broader movements for racial, gender, and LGBTQ equality.
- GreensboroPiedmont Triad hub
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- marchRhythmic group walk
- Brown v. Board of EducationLandmark desegregation decision
- integrationCombining into a whole
down south · Thurgood Marshall · March on Washington · Jim Crow laws · color line · Emancipation Proclamation · Martin Luther King Jr. · Rosa Parks · affirmative action · Frederick Douglass · Stonewall riots · Medgar Evers · Malcolm X · Harriet Tubman · Freedom Summer · 13th Amendment · voting · sit-ins
- Jefferson CountyJefferson County, Jefferson, Birmingham, Hoover, Fairfield
- history topicsancient Rome, ancient Greece, World War II, Renaissance, French Revolution
- OklahomaOklahoma, Tulsa, Indian Territory, Lawton, OU
- SEC SchoolsAlabama football, Bama, Ole Miss, SEC, NCAA
- historiographyhistoriography, historiographer, secondary sources, historical interpretation, historical analysis
- Black BeltAlabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina