How The Civil Rights Movement Went Left: Episode 1.

The modern civil rights movement (1954 to 1968) won a number of things for Black folks...all of which were basically granted by the Civil Righs Act of 1866-- 100 years earlier. Should we have been fighting to get on paper what we got on paper 100 years ago? Probably not. How did we arrive at such a flawed idea? The movement's architects began with the assumption of white dominance and built on that idea.