Civil Rights Movement (USA) (1 janv. 1954 – 1 janv. 1968)

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The civil rights movement[b] was a nonviolent social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States. The movement had its origins in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century, although it made its largest legislative gains in the 1960s after years of direct actions and grassroots protests. The social movement's major nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience campaigns eventually secured new protections in federal law for the civil rights of all Americans.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent voice and social justice advocate, for whom many African American composers in the coming decades would set his words, alongside poet Langston Hughes who passed in 1967.

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