Civil Rights Era
the Black freedom struggle
Civil Rights Era1,954 CE – 1,968 CE
01
The Broken Promise
1929–1954
02
The Earthquake
1954–1956
03
Mississippi, 1955
1955
04
381 Days
1955–1956
05
Building the Machine
1957–1959
06
The Students Sit Down
1960
07
Riding Into the Fire
1961–1962
08
Birmingham
1962–1963
09
The Summit and the Bomb
1963
10
The Law
1963–1964
11
Mississippi Burning
1964
12
The Bridge
1965
13
The Other America
1965–1966
14
The Longer Tradition
1954–1965
15
Black Power
1966–1968
16
The Fire This Time
1967–1968
17
Backlash
1968–1972
18
The Second Reconstruction
1865–1975 and after