The Modern Civil Rights Movement

"Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part." John Lewis, former Chairman of SNCC, icon of the modern Civil Rights Movement, and U.S. Congressman The modern American Civil Rights Movement, spanning 1954 to 1968, was a pivotal era in which Black Americans and their allies organized to fight for the rights long denied them.