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The Civil Rights Era is guide Number 23 of the 24 SparkNotes guides for studying American History. It provides historical perspective on the long struggle for civil rights for Black Americans from the start of the Jim Crow era to the protests and achievements of the late 1950s and 1960s. This study guide is preceded by our guide for The Korean War and followed by our guide The Vietnam War guide.

Read features in the SparkNotes guide to The Civil Rights Era that include Context for the struggle and a description of the many Legal Victories of the NAACP.

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