Post Civil War, as the volunteer armies disbanded, the regular army cavalry regiments increased in number from six to ten, among them the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment of Little Bighorn fame, and the African-American U. S. 9th Cavalry Regiment and U. S. 10th Cavalry Regiment.

He took a considerable risk during the mid-1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement sparked violence throughout the South by signing country music's first African-American singer Charley Pride, who sang rawer country than the smoother music Atkins had pioneered.

Full enfranchisement of citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing newfound attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

Brando was also an activist, supporting many issues, notably the African-American Civil Rights Movement and various American Indian Movements.

** American Civil Rights Movement – Little Rock Crisis: Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas calls out the US National Guard, to prevent African-American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.

* May 28 – American Civil War – The 54th Massachusetts, the first African-American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts to fight for the Union.

Harriet Tubman ( born Araminta Harriet Ross ; 1820 – March 10, 1913 ) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.

In December 1969, with a grant from the NIMH Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency, cytogeneticist Digamber Borgaonkar at Johns Hopkins Hospital began a chromosome survey of ( predominantly African-American ) boys ages 8 to 18 in all Maryland institutions for delinquent, neglected, or mentally ill juveniles, which was suspended from February – May 1970 due to an American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) lawsuit about the lack of informed consent.

* African-American Civil Rights Movement

Prominent figures of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

The African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) refers to the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them.

They resisted it in numerous ways and sought better opportunities through lawsuits, new organizations, political redress, and labor organizing ( see the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1896 – 1954 )).

In defiance, African Americans adopted a combined strategy of direct action with nonviolent resistance known as civil disobedience, giving rise to the African-American Civil Rights Movement of 1955 – 1968.

Full federal enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not occur until after passage of legislation in the mid-1960s as a result of the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ).

* African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1896 – 1954 )

During the mid-20th century, Montgomery was a major site of events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Selma to Montgomery marches.

Part of what became the Black Belt of Georgia, prior to the American Civil War the county's chief commodity crop was cotton, cultivated and processed by African-American slaves.

* African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1896 – 1954 )

* Timeline of African-American Civil Rights Movement

Category: Documentary films about the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 )

Category: African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) in film

Stephen Swails, one of its members, may have been the first African-American officer commissioned during the Civil War.

) The Equal Rights Party hoped to use the nominations to reunite suffragists with African-American civil rights activists, as the exclusion of female suffrage from the Fifteenth Amendment two years earlier had caused a substantial rift between the groups.

The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and its establishment of Jim Crow laws closed out the 19th-Century with civil rights injustices which would last until the African-American Civil Rights Movement through the second half of the 20th century, three generations later.

Leflore County was a major site of activism and violence during the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ).

Randolph would become a prominent civil rights leader, especially during the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

That year the U. S. District Judge Edwin Ford Hunter, Jr., based in Lake Charles, the seat of Calcasieu Parish, personally registered some two dozen African-American citizens under a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

" During the 20th Century African-American Civil Rights Movement, when attempts were made to move Fannie Lou Hamer's movement for poor people in Ruleville to Drew, the organizers, according to Moye, " faced stiff resistance.

* Canvasing the Movement, group show, 2009, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture

" Social Commentary in African-American Movement Performance.

During the 20th Century African-American Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, a farmworker, started a movement for poor people.

* August 29 – Charlie Parker, African-American saxophonist and composer ( d. 1955 )

On January 7, 1955, Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

In 1955, the first African-American President of the World Alliance of YMCAs, Mr. Charles Dunbar Sherman from Liberia, was elected.

Forty years after the African-American civil rights era ( 1955 – 1968 ), most of the United States remains a residentially segregated society in which blacks and whites inhabit different neighborhoods of significantly different quality.

* Ray Crowe ( brother of George ), coached the Crispus Attucks High School basketball team that won state championships in 1955 and 1956, becoming the first African-American team in the nation to claim a state title.

Category: African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) in film

On November 20, 1955, African-American rock ' n ' roll singer and guitarist Bo Diddley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, only to infuriate Sullivan (" I did two songs and he got mad ").

Within the context of the emergence of the New Left and the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) " several themes, theories, actions, all distinctly libertarian, began to come to the fore and were given intellectual expression by the American anarcho-pacifist, Paul Goodman.

On 7 January 1955, Marian Anderson, singing the role of Ulrica, broke the " color barrier " at the Metropolitan Opera, becoming the first African-American artist ever to appear with that company.

* African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 )

Marian Anderson's historic 1955 debut was followed by the introduction of a whole generation of outstanding African-American artists led by Leontyne Price ( who inaugurated the new house in Lincoln Center ), Reri Grist, Grace Bumbry, Shirley Verrett, George Shirley, Robert McFerrin, and others.

# REDIRECT African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 )

* African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 )

# REDIRECT African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 )

" We Shall Overcome " is a protest song that became a key anthem of the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ).

* African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 )

In 1955 he conducted the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra and became the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra in the Deep South.