What Was The Turning Point Of The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement was a time in which African Americans struggled from the mid-1950s into the 1960s to gain civil rights that made them equal to that of whites. The movement was intended to restore the citizenship of black people, which had been tarnished and tainted by Jim Crow laws of the South. These Jim Crow laws, also known as black codes, passed by Southern states, legalized segregation between blacks and whites. Later becoming the norm of the South, black codes regulated where black people can and cannot go, whom they can and cannot marry, and the rights they were able to make use of. An example, almost the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, is the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Regarded as the movement that began the Modern Civil Rights, the bus boycott, lasting 381 days, was the first massive protest that defied Jim Crow. Before the boycott, seamstress and NAACP activist, Rosa Parks violated the norm that kept blacks and whites separate. Despite her fears of being arrested, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. This action later caused her to get arrested. Little did the community of Southern white racists know, the arrest of Rosa Parks ignited a 13-month protest from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a turning point in the African American Civil Rights Movement because it was the first mass protest against Jim Crow and it is regarded as the movement that started the Modern Civil Rights