Equal Rights And The Civil Rights Movement

Equal rights, although widely practiced today was not always an easy matter. For hundreds of years African Americans were treated as less in the United States. They weren't valued as people and didn't receive the same rights and privileges as other races. This way of life of course brought up issues between races and started a revolution of sorts. African Americans and some whites saw this treatment as unjust and started the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was a chain of events pertaining to the realization that African Americans were human beings and deserved the same rights as whites.
Non violent protests were a big part of this movement. Usually organized by a set leader such as Martin Luther King Jr. Or the Freedom riders,