Civil Rights Movement (disambiguation)

Civil Rights Movement refers to a movement seeking to improve civil and political rights, in particular by (a) making it illegal to, and/or (b) making it legal not to, discriminate against a group of people on the basis of ethnicity, gender, or the like.

In the U.S., it most often refers to the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68).

Civil rights movements discusses many such movements around the world.

Civil Rights Movement can refer to:

United States

• African-American Civil Rights Movement
  • African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–95), immediately after the Civil War
  • African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954), struggling with state-mandated segregation
  • African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68), too many things to attempt to summarize here
• Feminism in the United States
  • Women's suffrage in the United States, women's right to vote and how they got it