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Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement seeks to inspire scholarly collaboration and develop new ways of creating and sharing scholarship on the civil rights movement.
By focusing on the “Long Civil Rights Movement,” our project seeks to broaden and deepen the traditional understanding of the civil rights movement as a 1960s-era American phenomenon. It stretches the movement’s timeline to include its origins and its aftermath, and connects it with contemporary controversies such as school resegregation, environmental and economic justice, with related efforts for social justice such as the women’s and gay rights movements, and even with the forces arrayed against them. It also reaches beyond the borders of the United States, seeking out the civil rights movement’s global connections.
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, our project is a collaboration between the University of North Carolina Press, the UNC-Chapel Hill University Library, the Center for Civil Rights of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law, and the Southern Oral History Program at the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for the Study of the American South.