Question: What external factors facilitated the emergence of the civil rights movement in the United States? How was the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s distinct from the civil rights movement in the United States? In what ways did the civil rights movement in the United States influence other social movements? How did the American civil rights and anti-war movements influence social movements in Canada? What were some of the key legacies of the protest cycles of the 1960s?