# Locality & Nation: Civil Rights & Voting Rights in the Deep South, 1963-1966

Thomas Jackson and Hasan Kwame Jeffries discuss the hard work of grass roots organizing of the civil rights movement that is often overlooked in histories. How well did national civil rights and voting legislation support their drive for authentic democracy and economic empowerment? Scholars uncover the lessons local organizers learned in the struggle against white violence and entrenched power in the Deep South.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2014
- By: American Folklife Center
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689385/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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