civil rights movement definition edu
Martin Luther King and other African-American Civil Rights Movement leaders in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s. In many situations they have been characterized by nonviolent protests, or have taken the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change through nonviolent forms of resistance.