The Civil Rights Era was a time of segregation between white and colored people. People would get beaten and often killed with cruel and unusual punishment like lynching, a type of hang. There was a promise that America made which was liberty and justice for all. Some ways America lived up to that promise were, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, run by Martin Luther King Jr. taken place after Rosa Park's death. There were even laws called Jim Crow laws which were laws that America made which was a promise of liberty and justice for all. There are non-violent protesting like sit-ins, even some white people felt that African Americans deserve their freedom. There were things that people did that did not live up to the American promise of liberty
