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The civil rights movement, which was led by African Americans, involved men and women of many backgrounds and ethnicities who took to the streets to end segregation and to press for civil, political, and economic rights for African Americans.

60-Second Civics, Episode 5320: February 28, 2025 (a rebroadcast of Episode 4266: February 24, 2021)

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Images: Slides 1 and 3: Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., 8/28/1963, U.S. Information Agency; Slide 2: Center for Civic Education and Canva; Slide 4: Library of Congress, "At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina," LC-DIG-ppmsc-00199, http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppms... Slide 5: Library of Congress, "Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval office of the White House after the March on Washington, D.C.," LC-U9- 10379-6, https://www.loc.gov/resource/ds.04413/; Slide 6: Close-up view showing CORE member during sit-in at McCrory's lunch counter in Tallahassee, 1962, Florida Memory, https://www.floridamemory.com/items/s... Slide 7: Library of Congress, Demonstrators marching in the street holding signs during the March on Washington, 1963, LC-U9- 10344-14, https://www.loc.gov/item/2013647400/; Slide 8: Library of Congress, "In front of 170 W 130 St., March on Washington, l t[o] r Bayard Rustin, Deputy Director, Cleveland Robinson, Chairman of Administrative Committee," LC-DIG-ppmsca-35538, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource... Slide 9: Cecil Stoughton, White House Press Office/Wikimedia Commons; Slides 10 and 11: Center for Civic Education and Canva