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Do not fill this in! {{Civil navigation |name = Civil rights movement |title = [[Civil rights movement]] (1954β1968) |listclass = hlist |state = {{{state|{{{1<includeonly>|collapsed</includeonly>}}}}}} |groupstyle = padding:0.35em 1.0em; line-height:1.1em; <!--reduces wide gap between wrapped groupname lines--> |style = wide |below='''{{#invoke:portal-inline|main|size=small|Civil rights movement}}''' |group1 = Events<br />([[Timeline of the civil rights movement|timeline]]) |list1 = {{#invoke:navbox|navbox|child |groupstyle= background-color: #eeeeee; vertical-align: middle |evenodd = swap |group1 = Prior to 1954 |list1= * [[Journey of Reconciliation]] * [[Executive Order 9981]] * [[Murders of Harry and Harriette Moore]] * ''[[Sweatt v. Painter]]'' (1950) * ''[[McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents]]'' (1950) * [[Baton Rouge bus boycott]] |group2 = 1954β1959 |list2 = * ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' **''[[Bolling v. Sharpe]]'' **''[[Briggs v. Elliott]]'' **''[[Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County|Davis v. Prince Edward County]]'' **''[[Gebhart v. Belton]]'' * ''[[Keys v. Carolina Coach Co.|Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company]]'' * [[Emmett Till]] * [[Montgomery bus boycott]] **''[[Browder v. Gayle]]'' * [[Tallahassee bus boycott]] * [[Mansfield school desegregation incident|Mansfield school desegregation]] * [[Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom|1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom]] **"[[Give Us the Ballot]]" * [[Royal Ice Cream sit-in]] * [[Little Rock Nine]] **''[[Cooper v. Aaron]]'' * [[Civil Rights Act of 1957]] * [[Ministers' Manifesto]] * [[Katz Drug Store sit-in]] * [[Kissing Case]] * [[Biloxi wade-ins]] |group3 = 1960β1963 |list3 = * [[New Year's Day March]] * [[Sit-in movement]] * [[Greensboro sit-ins]] * [[Nashville sit-ins]] * [[Atlanta sit-ins]] * [[Savannah Protest Movement]] * [[Greenville Eight]] * [[Civil Rights Act of 1960]] * [[Ax Handle Saturday]] * ''[[Gomillion v. Lightfoot]]'' * ''[[Boynton v. Virginia]]'' * [[University of Georgia desegregation riot]] * [[Friendship Nine|Rock Hill sit-ins]] * [[Law Day Address|Robert F. Kennedy's Law Day Address]] * [[Freedom Riders|Freedom Rides]] **[[Anniston bus bombing|Anniston bombing]] **[[Birmingham bus attack|Birmingham attack]] * ''[[Garner v. Louisiana]]'' * [[Albany Movement]] * [[Cambridge movement (civil rights)|Cambridge movement]] * [[University of Chicago sit-ins]] * "[[Second Emancipation Proclamation]]" * [[Ole Miss riot of 1962|Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot]] * [[Atlanta's Berlin Wall]] * [[George Wallace's 1963 Inaugural Address|"Segregation now, segregation forever"]] **[[Stand in the Schoolhouse Door]] * [[Birmingham campaign|1963 Birmingham campaign]] **[[Letter from Birmingham Jail]] **[[Children's Crusade (1963)|Children's Crusade]] **[[Birmingham riot of 1963|Birmingham riot]] **[[16th Street Baptist Church bombing]] * [[Report to the American People on Civil Rights|John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation on Civil Rights]] * [[Detroit Walk to Freedom]] * [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]] **[[I Have a Dream|"I Have a Dream"]] **[[Big Six (activists)|Big Six]] * [[St. Augustine movement]] |group4 = 1964β1968 |list4 = * [[Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twenty-fourth Amendment]] <!-- 23 Jan. 1964 --> * [[Chester school protests]] <!--April 1964--> * [[Bloody Tuesday (1964)|Bloody Tuesday]] <!-- 9 June 1964 --> * [[1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests]] <!-- 18 June 1964 --> * [[Freedom Summer]] **[[Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner|workers' murders]] <!-- 21 June 1964 --> * [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] <!-- 2 July 1964 --> * ''[[Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States]]'' * ''[[Katzenbach v. McClung]]'' * [[1964β1965 Scripto strike]] * [[Selma to Montgomery marches|1965 Selma to Montgomery marches]] **"[[How Long, Not Long]]" * [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]] * ''[[Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections|Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections]]'' * [[March Against Fear]] * [[White House Conference on Civil Rights]] * [[Chicago Freedom Movement|Chicago Freedom Movement/Chicago open housing movement]] * ''[[Loving v. Virginia]]'' * [[Memphis sanitation strike]] * [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|King assassination]] **[[Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.|funeral]] **[[King assassination riots|riots]] * [[Civil Rights Act of 1968]] * [[Poor People's Campaign]] * ''[[Green v. County School Board of New Kent County]]'' * ''[[Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.]]'' }} |group2 = Activist<br />groups |list2 = * [[Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights]] * [[Atlanta Student Movement]] * [[Black Panther Party]] * [[Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters]] * [[Congress of Racial Equality|Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)]] * [[Committee for Freedom Now]] * [[Committee on Appeal for Human Rights]] ** ''[[An Appeal for Human Rights]]'' * [[Council for United Civil Rights Leadership]] * [[Council of Federated Organizations]] * [[Dallas County Voters League]] * [[Deacons for Defense and Justice]] * [[Georgia Council on Human Relations]] * [[Highlander Research and Education Center|Highlander Folk School]] * [[Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights]] * [[Lowndes County Freedom Organization]] * [[Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party]] * [[Montgomery Improvement Association]] * [[NAACP]] **[[NAACP Youth Council|Youth Council]] * [[Nashville Student Movement]] * [[Nation of Islam]] * [[Northern Student Movement]] * [[National Council of Negro Women]] * [[National Urban League]] * [[Operation Breadbasket]] * [[Regional Council of Negro Leadership]] * [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference|Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)]] * [[Southern Regional Council]] * [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee|Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)]] * [[The Freedom Singers]] * [[United Auto Workers|United Auto Workers (UAW)]] * [[Wednesdays in Mississippi]] * [[Women's Political Council]] |group3 = Activists |list3 = * [[Ralph Abernathy]] * [[Victoria Gray Adams]] * [[Zev Aelony]] * [[Mathew Ahmann]] * [[Muhammad Ali]] * [[William G. Anderson]] * [[Gwendolyn Elaine Armstrong|Gwendolyn Armstrong]] * [[Arnold Aronson]] * [[Ella Baker]] * [[James Baldwin]] * [[Marion Barry]] * [[Daisy Bates (activist)|Daisy Bates]] * [[Harry Belafonte]] * [[James Bevel]] * [[Claude Black (minister)|Claude Black]] * [[Gloria Blackwell]] * [[Randolph Blackwell]] * [[Unita Blackwell]] * [[Ezell Blair Jr.]] * [[Joanne Bland]] * [[Julian Bond]] * [[Joseph E. Boone]] * [[William Holmes Borders]] * [[Amelia Boynton Robinson|Amelia Boynton]] * [[Bruce Boynton]] * [[Raylawni Branch]] * [[Stanley Branche]] * [[Ruby Bridges]] * [[Aurelia Browder]] * [[H. Rap Brown]] * [[Ralph Bunche]] * [[Guy Carawan]] * [[Stokely Carmichael]] * [[Johnnie Carr]] * [[James Chaney]] * [[J. L. Chestnut, Jr.|J. L. Chestnut]] * [[Shirley Chisholm]] * [[Colia Clark|Colia Lafayette Clark]] * [[Ramsey Clark]] * [[Septima Poinsette Clark|Septima Clark]] * [[Xernona Clayton]] * [[Eldridge Cleaver]] * [[Kathleen Cleaver]] * [[Charles E. Cobb Jr.]] * [[Annie Lee Cooper]] * [[Dorothy Cotton]] * [[Claudette Colvin]] * [[Vernon Dahmer]] * [[Jonathan Daniels]] * [[Abraham Lincoln Davis]] * [[Angela Davis]] * [[Joseph DeLaine]] * [[Dave Dennis (activist)|Dave Dennis]] * [[Annie Bell Robinson Devine|Annie Devine]] * [[Patricia Stephens Due]] * [[Joseph Ellwanger]] * [[Charles Evers]] * [[Medgar Evers]] * [[Myrlie Evers-Williams]] * [[Chuck Fager]] * [[James Farmer]] * [[Walter Fauntroy]] * [[James Forman]] * [[Marie Foster]] * [[Golden Frinks]] * [[Andrew Goodman (activist)|Andrew Goodman]] * [[Robert Graetz]] * [[Fred Gray (attorney)|Fred Gray]] * [[Jack Greenberg]] * [[Dick Gregory]] * [[Lawrence Guyot]] * [[Prathia Hall]] * [[Fannie Lou Hamer]] * [[Fred Hampton]] * [[William E. Harbour]] * [[Vincent Harding]] * [[Dorothy Height]] * [[Audrey Faye Hendricks]] * [[Lola Hendricks]] * [[Aaron Henry (politician)|Aaron Henry]] * [[Oliver Hill (attorney)|Oliver Hill]] * [[Donald L. Hollowell]] * [[James Hood]] * [[Myles Horton]] * [[Zilphia Horton]] * [[T. R. M. Howard]] * [[Ruby Hurley]] * [[Cecil Ivory]] * [[Jesse Jackson]] * [[Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson|Jimmie Lee Jackson]] * [[Richie Jean Jackson]] * [[T. J. Jemison]] * [[Esau Jenkins]] * [[Barbara Rose Johns]] * [[Vernon Johns]] * [[Frank Minis Johnson]] * [[Clarence B. Jones|Clarence Jones]] * [[J. Charles Jones]] * [[Matthew Jones (activist)|Matthew Jones]] * [[Vernon Jordan]] * [[Tom Kahn]] * [[Clyde Kennard]] * [[A. D. King]] * [[Chevene Bowers King|C.B. King]] * [[Coretta Scott King]] * [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] * [[Martin Luther King Sr.]] * [[Bernard Lafayette]] * [[James Lawson (activist)|James Lawson]] * [[Bernard Lee (activist)|Bernard Lee]] * [[Sanford R. Leigh]] * [[Jim Letherer]] * [[Stanley Levison]] * [[John Lewis]] * [[Viola Liuzzo]] * [[Z. Alexander Looby]] * [[Joseph Lowery]] * [[Clara Luper]] * [[Danny Lyon]] * [[Malcolm X]] * [[Mae Mallory]] * [[Vivian Malone Jones|Vivian Malone]] * [[Bob Mants]] * [[Thurgood Marshall]] * [[Benjamin Mays]] * [[Franklin McCain]] * [[Charles McDew]] * [[Ralph McGill]] * [[Floyd McKissick]] * [[Joseph McNeil]] * [[James Meredith]] * [[William Robert Ming|William Ming]] * [[Jack Minnis]] * [[Amzie Moore]] * [[Cecil B. Moore]] * [[Douglas E. Moore]] * [[Harriette Moore]] * [[Harry T. Moore]] * [[Queen Mother Moore]] * [[William Lewis Moore]] * [[Irene Morgan]] * [[Bob Moses (activist)|Bob Moses]] * [[William Moyer]] * [[Elijah Muhammad]] * [[Diane Nash]] * [[Charles Neblett]] * [[Huey P. Newton]] * [[E. D. Nixon|Edgar Nixon]] * [[Jack O'Dell]] * [[James Orange]] * [[Rosa Parks]] * [[James Peck (pacifist)|James Peck]] * [[Charles Person]] * [[Homer Plessy]] * [[Adam Clayton Powell Jr.]] * [[Fay Bellamy Powell]] * [[Rodney N. Powell]] * [[Albert Raby|Al Raby]] * [[Lincoln Ragsdale]] * [[A. Philip Randolph]] * [[George Raymond]] * [[George Raymond Jr.]] * [[Bernice Johnson Reagon]] * [[Cordell Reagon]] * [[James Reeb]] * [[Frederick D. Reese]] * [[Walter Reuther]] * [[Gloria Richardson]] * [[David Richmond (activist)|David Richmond]] * [[Bernice Robinson]] * [[Jo Ann Robinson]] * [[Angela Russell (politician)|Angela Russell]] * [[Bayard Rustin]] * [[Bernie Sanders]] * [[Michael Schwerner]] * [[Bobby Seale]] * [[Cleveland Sellers]] * [[Charles Sherrod]] * [[Alexander D. Shimkin]] * [[Fred Shuttlesworth]] * [[Modjeska Monteith Simkins]] * [[Glenn E. Smiley]] * [[A. Maceo Smith]] * [[Kelly Miller Smith]] * [[Mary Louise Smith (activist)|Mary Louise Smith]] * [[Maxine Smith]] * [[Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson]] * [[Charles Kenzie Steele]] * [[Hank Thomas]] * [[Dorothy Tillman]] * [[A. P. Tureaud]] * [[Hartman Turnbow]] * [[Albert Turner (activist)|Albert Turner]] * [[C. T. Vivian]] * [[Wyatt Tee Walker]] * [[Hollis Watkins]] * [[Walter Francis White]] * [[Roy Wilkins]] * [[Hosea Williams]] * [[Chicago Freedom Movement|Kale Williams]] * [[Robert F. Williams]] * [[Andrew Young]] * [[Whitney Young]] * [[Sammy Younge Jr.]] * [[Bob Zellner]] * [[James Zwerg]] |group4 = By region |list4 = * [[Civil rights movement in Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha, Nebraska]] * [[South Carolina in the civil rights movement|South Carolina]] |group5 = Movement</br>songs |list5 = *[[Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round|"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"]] *[[If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus|"If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus"]] *[[Kumbaya|"Kumbaya"]] *[[Keep Your Eyes on the Prize|"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"]] *[[Oh, Freedom|"Oh, Freedom"]] *[[This Little Light of Mine|"This Little Light of Mine"]] *[[I Shall Not Be Moved|"We Shall Not Be Moved"]] *[[We Shall Overcome|"We Shall Overcome"]] *[[Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)|"Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)"]] |group6 = Influences |list6 = * [[Nonviolence]] **[[Padayatra]] *[[Sermon on the Mount]] * [[Mahatma Gandhi]] **[[Ahimsa]] **[[Satyagraha]] *''[[The Kingdom of God Is Within You]]'' * [[Frederick Douglass]] * [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] * [[Mary McLeod Bethune]] |group7 = Related |list7 = * [[Jim Crow laws]] * [[Lynching in the United States]] * ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' **[[Separate but equal]] * ''[[Buchanan v. Warley]]'' * ''[[Hocutt v. Wilson]]'' * ''[[Sweatt v. Painter]]'' * ''[[Hernandez v. Texas]]'' * ''[[Loving v. Virginia]]'' * [[African-American women in the civil rights movement|African-American women in the movement]] * [[Jews in the civil rights movement]] * [[Fifth Circuit Four]] * [[16th Street Baptist Church]] * [[Kelly Ingram Park]] * [[A.G. Gaston Motel]] * [[Bethel Baptist Church (Birmingham, Alabama)|Bethel Baptist Church]] * [[Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church (Selma, Alabama)|Brown Chapel]] * [[Dexter Avenue Baptist Church]] * [[Holt Street Baptist Church]] * [[Edmund Pettus Bridge]] * [[March on Washington Movement]] * [[List of attacks against African-American churches#20th Century|African-American churches attacked]] * [[List of lynching victims in the United States]] * [[Freedom Schools]] * [[Freedom songs]] * [[National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam|Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam]] **"[[Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence]]" * [[Voter Education Project]] * [[Counterculture of the 1960s|1960s counterculture]] * [[African American founding fathers of the United States]] * ''[[Eyes on the Prize]]'' |group8 = Legacy |list8 = *[[Civil rights movement in popular culture|In popular culture]] *[[Birmingham Civil Rights Institute]] *[[Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument]] *[[Civil Rights Memorial]] *[[Civil Rights Movement Archive]] *[[Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument]] *[[Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument]] *[[Freedom Rides Museum]] *[[Freedom Riders National Monument]] *[[King Center for Nonviolent Social Change]] *[[Martin Luther King Jr. Day]] *[[Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial]] **[[Memorials to Martin Luther King Jr.|other King memorials]] *[[Mississippi Civil Rights Museum]] *[[National Civil Rights Museum]] *[[National Voting Rights Museum]] *[[St. Augustine Foot Soldiers Monument]] |group9 = Noted<br />historians |list9 = * [[Taylor Branch]] * [[Clayborne Carson]] * [[John Dittmer]] * [[Michael Eric Dyson]] * [[Chuck Fager]] * [[Adam Fairclough]] * [[David Garrow]] * [[David Halberstam]] * [[Vincent Harding]] * [[Steven F. Lawson]] * [[Doug McAdam]] * [[Diane McWhorter]] * [[Charles M. Payne]] * [[Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)|Thomas E. Ricks]] * [[Timothy Tyson]] * [[Akinyele Umoja]] * [[List of photographers of the civil rights movement|Movement photographers]] }}<noinclude> {{Documentation}} </noinclude> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page