Fight for civil rights 50 years ago changed the North forever

Fifty years ago, civil rights marches took place in Derry, Belfast, and Armagh. Activists wanted equality, but what happened next changed the North forever, writes Anthony Coughlan

The TV pictures of the police batoning of civil rights marchers in 1968 on Duke St, Derry, brought the anti-Catholic discrimination that then existed under the Unionist-majority regime at Stormont to the attention of the world.