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civil rights movement

1954–1968 U.S. nonviolent social movement

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Dec 1, 2025

How did J. Edgar Hoover's FBI investigate Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal life?

J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI carried out years of intensive surveillance, wiretaps and covert operations aimed at monitoring and discrediting Martin Luther King Jr., including phone taps, electronic surveill...

Nov 15, 2025

In what ways did the Civil Rights Movement intersect with the women's liberation movement of the 1960s?

The women’s liberation movement of the 1960s grew alongside and drew directly from the tactics, legal gains, and activist energy of the Civil Rights Movement: activists adapted nonviolent direct actio...