The Key Events Of The Civil Rights Movement

From 1954 to 1968 the civil Rights movement began. It was a way for African Americans to express their equality among white Americans’. The civil rights movement was a known protest against discrimination and segregation among African Americans. African Americans’ risked their lives in efforts to keep their children and grandchildren from undergoing the type of discrimination they went through. They were known to be beaten, hosed down, hanged and tried for crimes in which they were innocent. But they were able to get their word and point across by known activist of the civil rights movement, such as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks Malcom X, Ruby Bridges, and James Bevel. Of course they were many more types of people involved, such as Foot Solders’. …show more content…
These were the people who were down on the ground taking the hits and the dog bites and the jail time all while spreading a messages that they can fight back while not actually having to fight back. The main point of the civil rights movement goes back to the Declaration of Independence. In the document it states “We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…” but African Americans weren’t included as “as all men created equal” they were still seen as property as their ancestors before them. It was as if slavery hadn’t ended, it had merely gotten better in the eyes of white Americans’. They felt that this segregation was a benefit to the African Americans because they were no longer