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  • n  movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
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  • Students showcase civil rights work
    Students from McComb have a personal reason for showcasing major moments in the civil rights movement.
    June 13, 2013 - The Clarion-Ledger
  • 50th anniversary of assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers
    Mississippi native and civil rights activist Medgar Evers was killed June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. Hear an American RadioWorks documentary, "State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement."
    June 12, 2013 - Minnesota Public Radio
  • Video: 50th anniversary of an American civil rights milestone
    This is the 50th anniversary of a milestone in America's civil rights movement when segregationist governor George Wallace was forced by the Kennedy administration to comply with a court order and admit black students to the all-white University of Alabama. Scott Pelley reports.
    June 12, 2013 - CBS News

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