dr. gibson here suggested there was kind of a modern civil rights movement that's stretched from 35 -- at least here in maryland '35 to '68. i always have trouble, you know, because we keep calling it civil rights movement and it seems to be inclusive of a lot of different things that one could say wasn't quite specifically civil rights in the sense of i guess civil rights was kind of a legal question of what your rights under the constitution were as citizens. so what would be what could you in of as a better terminology to take this whole period from reconstruct on that would kind of -- i think people get confused and disassociate things. >> in the beginning of our course a couple of weeks ago we spent 45 minutes trying to discuss what the definition of civil rights was versus human rights before we read any text or anything like that. so, there's a difference between what historians call it versus the people who have participated in the movement decide to call it, which is i can say we can look at reconstruction and someone in the movement in baltimore says it starts this this time and

dr. gibson here suggested there was a modern civil rights movement that stretched from at least here in maryland from '35 to '68. i always have trouble because we keep calling it civil rights movement. and it seems to be inclusive of a lot of things. it wasn't exactly civil rights. i guess civil rights was kind of a legal question of your rights under the constitution as citizens. so what would be -- what could you think of as a better terminology to take this whole period from reconstruction on that would say it? i think people get confused and disassociated with things. >> at the beginning of the course a few weeks ago, we spent 45 minutes to figure that out before we read any text or anything like that. there is a difference between what historians decided to call the movement versus the people who participated in it. we can look at reconstruction and somebody in baltimore says it starts at it time period and ends at this time period. some folks and historians and activists have played around with the modern freedom struggle. just looking at the issue of freedom around the period of enslaveme

dr. hicks is a part of that first group igniting the flame of student protests, i'm going to turn to professor larry gibsonand ask him to sort of talk about the protest movement. and dr. hicks referenced how much credit greensboro gets for the first sit-in in 1960, but i know for a fact that professor gibson has come quite a few times to document the protests at morgan. so if you would. >> thank you. it's really a pleasure to be here on the occasion of the public opening of the henderson photographs. this group of photographs is an absolute national treasure. before you leave, go to the second floor, i guess they can, and see just the handful of photographs that are on exhibit there. but this is a group of 6,000 images. this museum and society needs additional resources to be able to process them and they should be processed because they chronicle and document the civil rights movement. first i'm very clear in my mind as to what i call the modern civil rights movement. when it begins, when it stops. and you're right, 1935 is the first major success, but i'll move back two more years, 1933 to 1964. let me t