African American Civil Rights Network

In partnership with the National Park Service, the Association of African American Museums (AAAM) announces
$477,205 in Grant Awards to 20 AACRN members.

The African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN) encompasses properties, facilities, and interpretive programs, all of which present a comprehensive narrative of the people, places, and events associated with African American Civil Rights movement in the United States. Some of these sites may be familiar, while others shed light on a lesser-known figure or event consequential to the movement from local, regional, and national perspectives.

African American Civil Rights Movement
The African American Civil Rights Movement (often referred to as the Civil Rights Movement) was a U.S. nonviolent social movement that ran approximately from 1939 to 1968. The movement sought to end discrimination and disenfranchisement of African Americans and to abolish legalized racial segregation. Participants in the Civil Rights Movement used the protections guaranteed to them under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution to carry out civil disobedience campaigns and nonviolent resistance. Because of the Civil Rights Movement, the U.S. government eventually enacted major laws and amended the Constitution to protect and guarantee civil rights for all.

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