Although equal rights for all were affirmed in the founding documents of the Unites States, many countries denied essential rights to African Americans. African Americans did not have the inalienable right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. The so-called “free blacks” endured racial discrimination and were segregated from the white people. Segregation meant that the people will completely and utterly isolated. The civil rights movement was a determined effort to gain greater social, political and economic equality for black Americans. They have struggled to achieve equality because of their skin color. Black people had long tolerated physical and social panorama of white sovereignty. This was entrenched in the social and political
