The Civil Rights Movement In The 1960's

Throughout the 1960s, African Americans made exceptional gains. There cause came to be known as the Civil Rights Movement. The term Civil Rights Movement encompasses strategies, groups, and movements in the united States contained goals to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and the 1960s was a time when African Americans first began to fight against segregation in the South leading to the nationwide battle for economic equality. The Civil Rights Movement was also a way to secure the legal recognition and federal protection of the citizens rights contained in the constitution and federal laws. African Americans began this movement by challenging segregation in the South.
This launched the beginning of the modern civil rights movement as well as inspired a bus boycott. Rosa Park’s bus boycott success, several African American leaders formed the Montgomery Improvement Association that was to run the boycott along with negotiate with city leaders to end segregation. This appointed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the leader of the civil rights movement that later inspired the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership COnference. The SCLC made it their goal to eliminate segregation from American society and encourage African Americans to register to vote. President Eisenhower prefered a gradual end of segregation but he still used military forces to protect African American students as well as showed support of African American voting rights through passing the Civil RIghts Act of 1957 that intended to protect the rights of African Americans to
African Americans endured many hardships that allowed them to make exceptional gains for themselves as well as others like them. It all began with the challenging segregation in the South. Laws, organizations, protests, and the gain of mass media as well as government attention all aided in gaining rights for African Americans and ending segregation, and gaining voting rights. African Americans endured much unnecessary discrimination and segregation even after laws prohibited it. Many put their lives at risk to make their points known and aid those who were struggling just like they were. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was not concerned exclusively on segregation and discrimination but also encompassed the fight for identification of American cities along with the struggle to gain social and economic