It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's rights movement, you name it.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.