civil+rights

The **African-American Civil Rights Movement** (1955–1968) refers to the movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racil discrimination against [|African Americans] and restoring [|voting rights] in Southern states. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the [|South]. By 1966, 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]