Civil Rights in America: 2014 Annual Black History Theme
Association for the Study of African American Life and History,
Founders of Black History Month
The history of civil rights in the United States is largely the story
of free people of color and then African Americans to define and
enumerate what rights pertain to citizens in civil society. It has been
the history of enlisting political parties to recognize the need for our
governments, state and federal, to codify and protect those rights.
Through the years, people of African descent have formed organizations
and movements to promote equal rights. The Colored Convention Movement,
the Afro-American League, the Niagara Movement, the National Council of
Negro Women, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference carried
the banner of equality when allies were few. In the modern era,
integrated organizations such as the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, and the
Congress of Racial Equality fought for and protected equal rights. The
names of America's greatest advocates of social justice—Frederick
Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Fanny Lou Hamer
- are associated with the struggle for civil rights.
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The Association for the Study of African American Life and
History has selected this theme to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the
1964 Civil Rights Act, and we invite all Americans and the global
community to join us in exploring the history of equal rights for all.
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