Discussion: Historical memory of key individuals in the Civil Rights Movement

Professor Tony Badger, Professor Joe Street and Professor Brian Ward discuss the African-American Civil Rights movement and examine different ways we might interpret the significance of key individuals, groups, institutions and events that played a role in its development and progress.

This section reflects on how the past is portrayed through the historical memory of people involved with the civil rights movements of the 1960s. What were the real actions of those involved but how are they remembered?