AMERICA - The Ripple Effect of Civil Rights Movement

"How the Civil Rights Movement Launched the Fight for LGBT, Women's Equality" PBS Newshour 9/2/2013

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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour):  And now we turn to the legacy of the March on Washington, 50 years later, as seen by scholars of other civil rights movements who were broadly represented at last week's anniversary celebration.

For a century after the Civil War, the black struggle for equal rights reminded America of its unfinished business.

Tonight Ray Suarez examines whether that struggle changed the way we think and talk about rights for everyone.

RAY SUAREZ (Newshour):  For that, we get two different perspectives.

Ruth Rosen is a professor emerita of history at the University of California, Davis, and author of the book "The World Split Open:  How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America."  And George Chauncey is co-director of the Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities and a professor of history and American studies at Yale University.