My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something lik...
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
