Contains flyers, posters, pamphlets, and correspondence relating to the activities of several Civil Rights organizations-- including National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Harvard Society of Minority Rights, and Committee of Racial Equality (CORE)-- during the Civil Rights movement.

The Civil Rights movement encompasses a wave of social movements in the United States, between the 1950s and 1960s, whose main objectives were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans through the means of securing legal recognition and protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law. Prior to the 1960s, the United States was admidst a socio-cultural and political nadir of equality across America as disenfranchisement, segregation and various forms of oppression, including race-inspired violence, existed with the continuation with Jim crow laws and other "separate but equal" actions.

1.6 linear feet (1 oversize box)

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