Civil Rights Movement

The problem with such thinking is that it ignores the fact that the Civil Rights Movement was the beginning -- not the end -- of a national acknowledgment of institutionalized racism, rampant discriminatory practices and systems of neglect and deliberate hostility that targeted powerless people and sabotaged their progress.

Mike Green: Oprah Winfrey Breaks Through Another Barrier Mike Green 2011

The problem with such thinking is that it ignores the fact that the Civil Rights Movement was the beginning -- not the end -- of a national acknowledgment of institutionalized racism, rampant discriminatory practices and systems of neglect and deliberate hostility that targeted powerless people and sabotaged their progress.

Mike Green: Oprah Winfrey Breaks Through Another Barrier Mike Green 2011

I haven't heard one black person declare the Civil Rights Movement was a fight for hippies to betray what those brave black people died to gain.

If you were getting married, would you want a wedding? Ann Althouse 2009

Judging by the serious meltdown across the national landscape in the mostly black occupied inner cities, those who would answer this question in the affirmative -- supporting the thesis that the Civil Rights Movement has been a success -- would be hard-pressed to make their case based on a serious review of any objective evidence.

Is Obama's Election as the First Black President Conclusive Evidence of the Civil Rights Movement's Success? 2009

There are many who have fought a war in this country called the Civil Rights Movement, who were beaten as if they were not human.

Something Wonderful Happened; We Won. 2008

And I do realise, his nomination just a few decades after the supposed end of the Civil Rights Movement is a great testament still to the "greatness" of this nation.

Parvez Sharma: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being 2008

The Civil Rights Movement was your movement too, and its unfinished work is still the task of every American.

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the National Council of La Raza 2007

Also, the Civil Rights Movement was a huge wakeup for me.

From Chair of the local Republican Party to Screaming Progressive 2006

And as far as a nation of the people, by the people and for the people - all the people - what we achieved via the Civil Rights Movement was the

GlobalResearch.ca 2010

The Civil Rights Movement was a large community organizing effort.

ArchPundit 2008