The civil rights movement was a mass popular movement to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. Although the roots of the movement go back to the 19th century, it peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
Court Cases
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was a U.S. Supreme Court justice
and civil rights advocate. Marshall earned an important
place in American history on the basis of two accomplishments.
First, as legal counsel for the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, he guided the
litigation that destroyed the legal underpinnings
of Jim Crow segregation.
and civil rights advocate. Marshall earned an important
place in American history on the basis of two accomplishments.
First, as legal counsel for the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, he guided the
litigation that destroyed the legal underpinnings
of Jim Crow segregation.
Fighting for Civil Rights
Challenges & Changes
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