Q&A: Historian Compares Today's Protests to Civil Rights Movement

Kevin Gaines, UVA’s Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice, said the protests go beyond changing policies, also seeking to “persuade white people that they are dehumanized by white supremacy as much as black people are.”

Key Events During the Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Today, American Experience, Official Site

2020 is not 1968: To understand today's protests, you must look further back

To the older generation of protesters who fought for their rights during the 50s and 60s in America, do you believe that rioting and looting is necessary for change or is it

Are Peaceful Protests More Effective Than Violent Ones?

The Modern Civil Rights Movement in the National Capital Area (U.S. National Park Service)

Celebrating the hidden history of disabled people's fight for civil rights, Disability

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Black Lives Matter: How far has the movement come?

From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter

The Sanitizing of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks - The Intercept

Different fight, 'same goal': How the Black freedom movement inspired early gay activists