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unusual facts about American civil rights movement



Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan's Art

Marqusee discusses Dylan's early influence by Woody Guthrie, his involvement with the protest movement, his ready youthful empathy with the American Civil Rights Movement and with those in poverty within the USA; and his increasing disillusionment in the mid-sixties with protest politics.

Hall Greenland

The Freedom Rides were inspired by the Freedom Riders of the American Civil Rights Movement.

Jerry Avorn

While attending Columbia University during the tumultuous opposition to the Vietnam War and American civil rights movement, he distinguished himself as a leading campus activist against the Vietnam War with his investigative journalism for the Columbia Daily Spectator.

Raymond V. Haysbert

During the time of civil rights activism beginning in the early 1960s, Haysbert worked to elect black politicians, including Harry Cole as Maryland's first African-American state senator.

Ruleville, Mississippi

During the 20th Century African-American Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, a farmworker, started a movement for poor people.


see also

John Herrera

John J. Herrera, American attorney, activist, and leader in the Mexican American civil rights movement

The Prize

Eyes on the Prize, a documentary about the American civil rights movement