Resumen de Dreams of a Bygone Era?

KRISTINE LEE

• The article discusses what civil rights means to Americans 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement in August 1963 when the U.S. was swept in unprecedented mass mobilization. It notes that Americans still take to the streets prompted by a compulsion to close the gap between rhetoric of freedom and social reality around them. It notes how the concept of civil rights became more amorphous with a wide range of interest groups putting their causes as the new front lines of civil rights activism