How Did The Civil Rights Movement Change

The challenges that were faced by the minorities as they pursued their cause to change the laws that segregated them. These laws forced them to ride in the back of the bus, have separate rest rooms and not being able to attend white schools. Other laws that discriminated against them were having separate water fountains and not being able to eat at the lunch counter. There were laws that directed how colored people acted out in public, on where they could walk, talk and drink. They were treated as a second-class citizen in America. The country was slowly moving toward a more equal society, but the south was so entrenched with the status quo of discrimination. The Civil Rights movement gained momentum with the National Association for the …show more content…
The Governor called the national guard to keep the piece and not allow them to attend school, federal troops were sent in by president Eisenhower to force school desegregation in Little Rock. Other ways the civil rights movement would effect change was to stage a boycott, the most famous one being the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama started by Rosa Parks. She refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, this started the boycott that lasted a year, in the end segregation on bus was ruled unconstitutional. Two other ways of protest were sit ins, where the rights activist refused to leave a segregated area and marches. Leaders during the civil rights movement were Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer and Malcolm X. Two of the three preached of nonviolent means to get their message across. Malcolm X tended to align himself with the militant side of the rights movement. He was part of the Nation of Islam but became disillusioned with the organization. After separating from the group, he was assassinated by their leader. Martin Luther King Jr. was there with Rosa Parks and help organize the bus boycott, he lead a peaceful march of 200,000 on Washington DC in 1963. He was assassinated in 1968 while planning