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America’s Civil Rights Movement

A course of study in the history of the African American civil rights movement in the United States from 1954 to 1985. Based on the acclaimed documentary series Eyes on the Prize produced by the Public Broadcasting Service.


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Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.