Yale historian Jonathan Holloway complicates the standard narrative of the civil rights movement, arguing that Martin Luther King Jr. has come to overshadow a much wider cast of activists and organizations. Delivered as part of Yale's American History: From Emancipation to the Present, the lecture moves through the Montgomery bus boycott and the Women's Political Council that organized it, the killing of Emmett Till, the integration crisis at Little Rock's Central High School, the Greensboro sit-ins, and the founding of the SCLC and SNCC. Holloway traces differing responses to violence and differing strategies against segregation among these groups, and examines the movement's internal gender dynamics and its emphasis on respectability politics. Rather than a single unified campaign, the lecture presents a movement of competing tactics and personalities, with King himself framed as a figure who both inspired and, at times, constrained grassroots activism. Recorded in Spring 2010 as lecture 14 of the course.