The phase of the movement between 1955 and 1968, particularly in the South. The emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from oppression by white Americans.

Klansville KKK - The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights (Full Documentary)

More than 20000 Native Americans fought in the Civil War.

The program featured a clip from the PBS documentary "Death and the Civil War," produced by Burns and based upon Faust's book "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War."

America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those changes. Civil Rights were dominant, but the 60s also saw growth in the Women's Movement, the LGBT rights movement, the Latino rights movement, and the American Indian movement.

As the American Civil Rights Movement successfully challenged legal segregation, it also created a cultural shift that transformed American music, fashion and culture. Folk, blues and gospel singers created harmonies and beats to drum forward the march for racial equality. Activists of the 1950s and 1960's, dressed in formal church attire,...

A winning documentary viewed at the National History Day competition in Washington D.C. It tells the story of the Children's March, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, and the influence these events had on the faltering Civil Rights Movement in 1963. Also included are personal interviews we conducted with Barbara Cross, daughter of...

John Green teaches you about the early days of the Civil Rights movement. By way of providing context for this, John also talks a bit about wider America in the 1950s. The 1950s are a deeply nostalgic period for many Americans, but there is more than a little idealizing going on here. The 1950s were a time of economic expansion, new...