This guide to civil rights law is of interest to students and scholars of American legal history and the history of the civil rights movement in the United States.

The movement for civil rights from the 1930s to the early 1960s had many forms. Some were culture: the African-Americans experience in World War II, the accelerating migration of African-Americans from the South, Jackie Robinson's performance in desegregating major league baseball. Others were political.

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