struggles of organizations like the naacp, resulting in cases like sweat verses painter or shelly verses cramer, moving on to more direct action programs in the 1950s with things like the montgomery lost boycott and rosa parks and dr. martin luther king junior as a popular figure, shifting to the 1960s wi, that's generally the historians have described the civil rights movement. but recently in the last i would say two decades, historians have begun to look at the civil rights movement over a longer trajectory of time. ot beginning in the 1940s, butu argue, looking at the first attempts to fight for civil rights and citizenship amongst african-americans, beginning during the times of reconstruction and emancipation in but really looking at that period of finding legal battles as soon as they were able to. maryland is positioned as an interesting place to do that. when you think of the civil rights movement and i ask my students this question all the time, what images come to mind? what do you think of when you hear civil rights movement? this is the interactive part of the conversation. >> sit-