The history of the 1954 to 1968 Americancivil rights movement has been depicted and documented in film, song, theater, television, and the visual arts. These presentations add to and maintain cultural awareness and understanding of the goals, tactics, and accomplishments of the people who organized and participated in thisnonviolent movement.

• Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963), first-hand journalistic reporting of theUniversity of Alabama "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" integration crisis of June 1963.
• Nine from Little Rock (1964), about theLittle Rock Nine who enrolled in an all-white Arkansas high school in 1957.
• The March (1964), about the 1963March on Washington, was made for theUnited States Information Agency.
• Louisiana Diary (1964) follows theCongress of Racial Equality (CORE) from July to August 1963, as they undertake an African American voter registration drive inPlaquemine, Louisiana.
• Cicero March (1966), details a civil rights march held by theCongress of Racial Equality on September 4, 1966, inCicero, Illinois, soon after the 1966Chicago open housing movement ended.
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
• Malcolm X (1972), based onThe Autobiography of Malcolm X.
• Freedom on My Mind (1994), documents efforts to registerAfrican-American voters inMississippi,Freedom Summer, and the formation of theMississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
• A Time for Justice (1994), a short history of the civil rights movement narrated byJulian Bond.
• 4 Little Girls (1997), focusing on the 1963 events surroundingthe bombing of the16th Street Baptist Church just after theBirmingham campaign.
• Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (2002), created with archival footage
• February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four (2003), documents the 1960Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins and the four college students involved.
• The Murder of Emmett Till (2003) about the murder and the impact ofEmmett Till's open-casket funeral.
• Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003), about the life of civil rights organizerBayard Rustin.^[1]
• Home of the Brave (2004), documents the life and murder ofViola Liuzzo which occurred just after her participation in the 1965Selma to Montgomery march.
• Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004) about the 1963Birmingham campaign and itsChildren's Crusade marches by schoolchildren.
• Dare Not Walk Alone (2006) focuses on the 1964St. Augustine movement.
• Mississippi Cold Case (2007), chronicles theKu Klux Klan murders of two young black men in Mississippi in 1964 duringFreedom Summer, and the 21st-century quest for justice by the brother of one of those murdered.
• Colored Frames (2007), art within the civil rights movement.
• The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 (2008), details the events surrounding theassassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at theLorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
• Neshoba (2008), chronicles the events and thinking inNeshoba County, Mississippi, 40 years after the 1964murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
• Soundtrack for a Revolution (2009), focuses on some of the songs sung during the civil rights movement.
• Crossing in St. Augustine (2010), produced byAndrew Young, who participated in the civil rights movement in St. Augustine in 1964.
• The Barber of Birmingham (2011), about James Armstrong, a voting rights activist and an original flag bearer for the 1965Selma to Montgomery marches.
• Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement (2012), on the life and thoughts of activistJulian Bond.
• The March (2013), documents the 1963March on Washington and the "I Have a Dream" speech by King.
• Freedom Summer (2014), documents the events of the 1964Mississippi Freedom Summer movement.
• In the Hour of Chaos (2016), film aboutMartin Luther King Sr.
• I Am Not Your Negro (2016),James Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights movement participants.
• King in the Wilderness (2018), focuses on the last two years of Dr. King's life.
• John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020), on the life of activist, SNCC leader, and congressmanJohn Lewis.
• MLK/FBI (2020), an account of the FBI's investigation and harassment of Martin Luther King Jr.

• Mississippi Burning (1988), about the 1964murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner inMississippi.
• Hairspray (1988,2007 remake), features a major subplot about civil rights movement era demonstrations against racial segregation inBaltimore, Maryland.
• The Long Walk Home (1990), portrays a woman who is boycotting city buses during the 1955-1956Montgomery bus boycott.
• Malcolm X (1992), a biopic focused on the life and assassination ofMalcolm X.
• Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), an account of the assassination of Mississippi activistMedgar Evers and the subsequent investigation.
• Ruby Bridges (1998), is based on the true story ofRuby Bridges, a six-year-old girl who integratedWilliam Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1960.
• Selma, Lord, Selma (1999), follows the life of 11-year-oldSheyann Webb during the events leading up to the 1965Selma to Montgomery march and its "Bloody Sunday".
• Our Friend, Martin (1999), fictionalized animated time-travel film which depicts Martin Luther King Jr. at several key points during the civil rights movement.
• Boycott (2001), depicts some of the events of the 1955-56Montgomery bus boycott.
• The Rosa Parks Story (2002), the life of the key figure in the Montgomery bus boycott.
• The Butler (2013), a scene depicts a civil rights movement training session conducted during theNashville Student Movement byJames Lawson and other civil rights movement events.
• Selma (2014), focusing on the events leading up to, during, and after the 1965Selma to Montgomery marches, including the 1965Voting Rights Act.
• All the Way (2016), focusing onLyndon B. Johnson's successful attempt to pass theCivil Rights Act of 1964.
• An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (2016), depicts the racism faced by a young fictional character in her home town of Detroit during the events leading up to the16th Street Baptist Church bombing, the film honors the four children killed in the bombing during the end credits.
• My Nephew Emmett (2017), about the 1955 murder ofEmmett Till
• Son of the South (2020), focuses on the life of SNCC activistBob Zellner.
• Till (2022), based on the true story ofMamie Till-Bradley, an educator and activist who pursued justice after the murder of her 14-year-old sonEmmett.
• Rustin (2023), film about movement leaderBayard Rustin and the 1963March on Washington.

• Summer in Mississippi (1965), a Canadian documentary short
• Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975) two-parttelevision movie dramatizing the events following the 1964 disappearance and murder of threecivil rights workers inMississippi.
• King (1978 miniseries) aboutSouthern Christian Leadership Conference chairman and movement spokesman,Martin Luther King Jr.
• Crisis at Central High (1981),made-for-television movie about theLittle Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
• For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983),PBSbiopic about assassinated Mississippi civil rights activistMedgar Evers, his work, and his family.
• Eyes on the Prize (1987–1990), a 14-hour documentary series chronicling the civil rights movement.
• My Past Is My Own (1989), a portrayal of students organizing an early 1960s civil rights movementsit-in.
• Murder in Mississippi (1990) movie following the last weeks of three civil rights workers,Michael "Mickey" Schwerner,Andrew Goodman andJames Chaney, and the events leading up totheir disappearance and subsequent murder duringFreedom Summer.
• Separate But Equal (1991), depicts the landmarkSupreme Courtdesegregation caseBrown v. Board of Education, based on the phrase "Separate but equal".
• The Ernest Green Story (1993), film chronicling the true story ofErnest Green (Morris Chestnut) and eight other high-school students (dubbed the "Little Rock Nine") and the 1957 integration ofLittle Rock Central High School inLittle Rock, Arkansas.
• George Wallace (1997), a film aboutGeorge Wallace, the Alabama governor, and his involvement in many of the events of the era including the 1963 "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door".
• Ruby Bridges (1998), the true story of six-year-oldRuby Bridges who, in 1960, became the first black student to integrate an elementary school in the South.
• Any Day Now (1998–2002), series with a major subplot involving theBirmingham campaign.
• Freedom Song (2000), a film based on true stories of the civil rights movement inMississippi, involving voting rights,Freedom Summer, and theStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
• Sins of the Father (2002) chronicles the 196316th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in which four young African American girls were killed while attending Sunday school.
• Alpha Man: The Brotherhood of MLK (2011), BET documentary details Martin Luther King Jr.'s college years and fraternity.
• Freedom Riders (2011), aPBS film marking the 50th anniversary of the firstFreedom Ride in May, 1961.
• Betty & Coretta (2013), a film focused onBetty Shabazz andCoretta Scott King.
• Hairspray Live! (2016), a presentation of theJohn Waters musical about a fictional Baltimore desegregation of a television dance program.
• Rosa (Doctor Who) (2018), an episode of the popular science-fiction series depictsRosa Parks and her 1955 sit-in which began theMontgomery bus boycott.
• The Umbrella Academy (2020), a time-travel science-fiction series, set itssecond season in 1963 and depicted organizing meetings and a dinersit-in in the season's third episode.
• Women of the Movement (2022), six-episode series aboutMamie Till and her sonEmmett.

• "We Shall Overcome",gospel-based song that became an anthem for the civil rights movement.
• "Kum ba yah" ("Come by here"), anAfrican Americanspiritual song of disputed origin sung during the movement.
• "We Shall Not Be Moved",spiritual-based song often sung during the civil rights movement.
• "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize", sung during the Movement actions, based on the traditional folk song "Gospel Plow".
• "Oh, Freedom", a post-Civil War African-American freedom song, popular during the Civil Rights Movement.
• "This Little Light of Mine", originally a hymn, the lyrics were modified as it became a movement anthem.
• "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round", movement song adapted from a spiritual.
• "If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus" byCharles Neblett, a founder and member ofThe Freedom Singers
• "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)", gospel based 1961 revamp by Robert Wesby, composed during theFreedom Rides.^[2]

• "Fables of Faubus" (1957),Charles Mingus's jazz composition written and performed in response to theLittle Rock Nine incident
• "The Death of Emmett Till" (1962), one of several songs Bob Dylan paid tribute to civil rights; this one a reference to theMurder of Emmett Till
• "Oxford Town" (1962), written and sung byBob Dylan, pertains toJames Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississippi.
• "Alabama" (1963),John Coltrane's jazz composition response to a 1963church bombing that killed four young girls.
• "A Change Is Gonna Come" (1964), written and sung bySam Cooke, became an anthem for the civil rights movement.
• "Birmingham Sunday" (1964),Richard Fariña's response to the Birmingham church bombing recorded byJoan Baez, Fariña's sister-in-law, on her 1964 albumJoan Baez/5.
• "Mississippi Goddamn" (1964),Nina Simone's response to the murder ofMedgar Evers.
• "Only a Pawn in Their Game" (1964),Bob Dylan's response to the murder of Medgar Evers, which he sang at the 1963March on Washington
• "Keep on Pushing" (1964),rhythm and blues hit single byThe Impressions.
• "Here's to the State of Mississippi", (1965) a protest song byPhil Ochs that criticizes the state ofMississippi for its mistreatment ofAfrican Americans.
• "Eve of Destruction" (1965) references theSelma to Montgomery marches.
• "Abraham, Martin and John" (1968), a tribute toAbraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr,John F. Kennedy, andRobert F. Kennedy written byDick Holler and first recorded byDion.
• "If I Can Dream" (1968), recorded byElvis Presley in honor of King soon after King's death.
• Scenes from the Life of a Martyr (1981), a 16-partoratorio composed byUndine Smith Moore in memory of King.
• "MLK" (1984) byU2, alullaby to honor Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "Pride (In the Name of Love)" (1984) a song about King by U2
• Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World; Nicolas Flagello: The Passion of Martin Luther King (1995), an album of classical music by theOregon Symphony in honor of King.
• "Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)" (2006),Patty Griffin's song about the emotions surrounding King's 1968I've Been to the Mountaintop speech.
• "A Dream" (2006), byCommon for the filmFreedom Writers, uses King's "I Have a Dream" speech
• "Glory" (2014), byCommon andJohn Legend for the filmSelma, won both theGolden Globe andAcademy Award for Best Original Song.
• "Mother of Muses" (2020) byBob Dylan refers to the military defeats of theConfederate States of America andNazism as "(carving) out the path forMartin Luther King".^[3]

• The Meeting (1987), a play about an imaginary 1965 meeting betweenMartin Luther King Jr. andMalcolm X in a hotel in Harlem.
• James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire (1999), set in Baldwin's apartment on the morning of May 24, 1963, immediately before Baldwin and other Black leaders are scheduledto meet with Attorney GeneralRobert F. Kennedy concerning events in the civil rights movement.
• Hairspray (2002), a musical based on the 1988 film described above.
• The State of Mississippi and the Face of Emmett Till (2003) is a play centered on the murder and subsequent open-casket funeral ofEmmett Till.
• The Mountaintop (2009), a play set in Room 306 of theLorraine Motel the night before King's assassination.
• I Dream (2010), a musical about the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
• All the Way (2012), a play about U.S. presidentLyndon B. Johnson and his work to pass the1964 Civil Rights Act.

• Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story (1957), graphic portrayal of the 1955-56Montgomery bus boycott written byAlfred Hassler and Benton Resnik and illustrated bySy Barry.
• Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White (2012) by Lila Quintero Weaver, graphic memoir recounting Weaver's childhood during the 1960s inMarion, Alabama. Published in Spanish asCuarto oscuro: Recuerdos en blanco y negro.
• March (2013, 2015, 2016), a three-volume graphic autobiography of activistJohn Lewis recalls his life and the events of the civil rights movement in Nashville,Selma, and other movement sites, co-written byAndrew Aydin and illustrated byNate Powell.

• The Problem We All Live With (1964), a painting byNorman Rockwell depictingRuby Bridges, the six-year-oldAfrican-American girl who, in 1960, was the first to desegregateWilliam Frantz Elementary School in the South during theNew Orleans school desegregation crisis.
• Murder in Mississippi (1965), a painting and an important sketch byNorman Rockwell depicting the 1964 murders of civil rights activistsJames Chaney,Andrew Goodman andMichael Schwerner.
• Bust of Martin Luther King Jr. (1970), byCharles Alston, has been featured in theOval Office of theWhite House by theObama andTrump presidential administrations.
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Prophet for Peace (1976), a statue of King and Emmett Till in Pueblo, Colorado, by Ed Rose
• U.S. Capitol Rotunda sculpture (1986), a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. byJohn Woodrow Wilson
• Civil Rights Memorial (1989), amemorial fountain inMontgomery, Alabama, designed byMaya Lin dedicated to 41 people who died in the civil rights movement.
• Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (1993), in Mexico City.
• Landmark for Peace Memorial (1994), a statue honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in Indianapolis, Indiana, by Greg Perry andDaniel Edwards.
• Homage to King (1996), statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia, by Xavier Medina Campeny.
• The Bridge (1997), sculpture in Atlanta, Georgia, byThornton Dial honoring civil rights movement activist and SNCC leaderJohn Lewis
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1998), a statue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Eric Blome.
• The Dream (1998), a sculpture honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Portland, Oregon, by Michael Florin Dente.
• Martin Luther King Jr. (1999), a statue in Austin, Texas, by Jeffrey Varilla and Anna Koh-Varilla.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (2000), a bust and accompanying bas reliefs by Jonathan Shahn in Jersey City, New Jersey.
• February One (2002), a statue byJames Barnhill inGreensboro, North Carolina, commemorating the four students who organized the 1960Greensboro sit-ins.
• Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (2002), in Denver Colorado, byEd Dwight, also features depictions of activistsFrederick Douglass,Mohandas Gandhi,Rosa Parks, andSojourner Truth.
• Statue of James Meredith (2006), a statue at theUniversity of Mississippi inOxford which honorsJames Meredith, who desegregated the University in 1962.
• Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (2007) in Houston, Texas, byEd Dwight.
• TheVirginia Civil Rights Memorial (2008), designed and sculpted byStanley Bleifeld, consists of 18 statues representing individuals, including studentBarbara Johns, who protested to bring school desegregation to the state.
• Statue of Rosa Parks (2009), a statue inEugene, Oregon, portrays activistRosa Parks waiting for a bus.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (2011), showcases theStone of Hope, a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. byLei Yixin, and several surrounding art pieces and quotations on theNational Mall in Washington, D.C.
• St. Augustine Foot Soldiers Monument (2011), by Brian R. Owens, commemorates the activists who participated in the 1963-64St. Augustine movement.
• Emmett Till: How She Sent Him and How She Got Him Back (2012), a painting by Lisa Whittington depicting the results of the 1955 lynching ofEmmett Till
• Rosa Parks (2013), statue inNational Statuary Hall, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.
• Statues of Martin Luther King Jr. (2015, 2021), two statues of Dr. King by Thomas Jay Warren in Newark, New Jersey
• Open Casket (2016), a painting byDana Schutz depictingEmmett Till after his 1955 lynching.
• Martin Luther King Jr. statue (2017), designed by Martin Dawe from a photograph from theMontgomery bus boycott, Atlanta, Georgia
• Continuing the Conversation (2018), a double-statue ofRosa Parks by Martin Dawe, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
• Hope Moving Forward (2021), a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Georgis, designed byBasil Watson
• Statue of John Lewis (2021), statue of movement leaderJohn Lewis by Gregory Johnson, Atlanta
• The Embrace (2023), statue of Martin and Coretta King hugging, byHank Willis Thomas, Boston
• Statue of Daisy Bates (2024) byBenjamin Victor, installed in the U.S. CapitolNational Statuary Hall Collection in honor of activistDaisy Bates

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday

• List of photographers of the civil rights movement
• Freedom Songs
• Civil Rights Movement Archive
• A Force More Powerful, 1999 documentary and 2000 television series
• Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
• Freedom Riders National Monument
• Little Rock Central High School Desegregation silver dollar
• National Civil Rights Museum
• National Voting Rights Museum
• Memorials to Martin Luther King Jr.
• Streets named after Martin Luther King Jr.
• Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950–1970
• Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
• USNSMedgar Evers
• USNSJohn Lewis

• "People Get Ready": Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
• 2015 Academy Awards performance of "Glory" onYouTube
• Civil Rights Movement Archive
• "The Power of Freedom Songs" by Bruce Hartford (2011)

• Civil rights movement in popular culture
• Civil rights movement in film
• Civil rights movement in television

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