The civil-rights activists planned to change the world, not just the country
The civil-rights activists planned to change the world, not just the country
American public memory of the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s has long been fixed on the struggle to dismantle Jim Crow in the South. Most accounts centre on the national efforts of well-known individuals such as Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech is the movement’s defining moment, encapsulating a story about how courageous black Americans and their allies toppled legal segregation and brought an end to black disenfranchisement.
