What Was The Civil Rights Movement In The 60's

The Civil Rights Movement of 1950’s was a movement, that held massive nonviolent protest for racial discrimination and segregation upon African Americans during the 1950’s and 60’s. African Americans were treated unequal as well as alienated from the whites. During this era African Americans struggle to gain equal rights especially in the southern states which was beginning to become a major problem. As stated in Vision of America: A History of The United States,” Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as a major leader, alongside a generation of activist black and white’s college students who employed new nonviolent strategies to compel white Americans to confront the harsh realities of Jim Crow”.1 Dr. King who was an outstanding civil rights activist, speaker, leader, father, husband, intelligent Africa American male, organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which was founded to fight against racial segregation in the South.
In 1954, the Brown family sue the Board of …show more content…
The nine African-American students had to be escorted by the police on their first day, due to the massive amount of people along with the Arkansas National Guards who were blocking the main entrance to the school. The nine African-American students to giving the nickname the “Little Rock Nine”. Once again, the NAACP lawyers stepped in, including Thurgood Marshall and won the case. The Little Rock Nine case proved once again that the hypocritical society which black lived in (1975) was still full of racial prejudices and was not ready for social