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Learn about the history and achievements of the civil rights movement, a struggle for the rights of Black Americans that started in the 1950s and 1960s. Find out how the NAACP, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders fought for civil rights, and how they faced challenges and challenges from white resistance and violence.
Learn what civil rights are, how they protect every citizen's rights under the law, and the different civil rights movements that fought for the rights of various groups. Explore the history of civil rights leaders, events, and terms with activities, puzzles, and books.
- What Was The Civil Rights Movement?
- Historical Background
- The American Civil War
- The Reconstruction Era
- Jim Crow Laws
- Civil Rights During World War II
- Civil Rights Movement
In the 20th century, several African Americans united with progressive white Americans in the United States of America in an event called the Civil Rights Movement.
Over 4 million African people were transported to America in horrible conditions by slave traders for the express purpose of slavery.
The election of Abraham Lincoln further strengthened the views of Americans against what was referred to as ‘the peculiar institution’.
The Reconstruction Era began in 1863 and is one of the most important chapters in the history of African Americans.
The southern states introduced the Jim Crow Laws between 1888 to 1908, to legalize the disenfranchisement of African Americans and suppress the Black community.
Even though the African Americans were freed they still performed the same jobs as they did when they were slaves. They were not allowed to join the war effort and benefit from the war-related jobs.
Rosa Parks
1. The segregation laws in Alabama required African Americans to occupy only the designated seats on public transport. 1. Rosa Parks had followed the segregation law and was seated in the designated seat on a Montgomery, Alabama Bus. 1. However, she and three other Black passengers were told to vacate their seats when a white man could not find an empty seat for himself. 1. When Rosa Parks refused to vacate her seat she was immediately arrested. Her arrest sparked controversy and she was call...
President Dwight Eisenhower
1. When the Supreme Court announced that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in 1954, nine Black students known as the Little Rock Nine decided to begin classes in a school that was segregated. 1. When they came for their first day at Central High School, they were stopped and terrorized by the Arkansas National Guard. 1. They did not give up and tried going to school again but their safety was under threat and hence failed to attend classes. 1. President Dwight Eisenhower comm...
Sit-Ins and Nonviolent Protests
1. On February 1, 1960, Woolworth’s lunch counter refused to serve food to 4 Black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina. 1. The students refused to leave the counter until they were served and this led to the Greensboro Sit-Ins where hundreds of protestors joined the cause of the 4 Black students. 1. They boycotted lunch counters that practiced segregation until the 4 Black students were given food by Woolworth’s lunch counter. 1. This event inspired several other sit-ins and peacef...
Learn about the history and achievements of the civil rights movement, which fought for racial equality and justice in the United States. Find out how nonviolent protests, court cases, and laws challenged segregation and discrimination.
Learn about the fight for racial equality that African-Americans faced for over 100 years after the Civil War. Explore the background, leaders, events, and laws of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s to the 1960s. Find out interesting facts and activities to help you understand this important history.
By the end of the 1960s, the civil rights movement had brought about dramatic changes in the law and in public practice, and had secured legal protection of rights and freedoms for African Americans that would shape American life for decades to come. Highlights from the African American civil rights movement of the 20th century. Brown v.
The goal of the march was to urge President John F. Kennedy to pass a civil rights bill that would end segregation in public places like schools, ensure easier access to voting, train and place...
