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Although many people think that since the Civil Rights movement is over, there are no problems with segregation. I however disagree with that. I think that the Civil Rights movement accomplished many things and made America come so far. We now have schools, public places, bathrooms, classrooms, that are integrated because of the movement. However, I think that there is still so much to be done. Even though African Americans have the same rights as white people, I think that in some cases they are still treated unequally. For example, by police. From the stories that I heard on the news, I think that police have a stereotype for African Americans and I don't think that is how we should be living. It is 2017, and as Americans we are still dealing with situations that happened years ago. I think we should all see each other as equal human beings and all get along as one nation.

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civil and political rights (organization sector)

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American Freedom Stories: Civil Rights Foot Soldiers

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They will never get their names in the history books, yet the foot soldiers of the Civil Rights movement changed history for the better through their unsung acts of courage.

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"The Civil Rights movement had projected an image of black people as decent, hardworking, non-violent, law-abiding citizens who were being unfairly and illegally victimized.

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"Massachusetts courts abolished slavery in that state in 1783, noting that the new state constitution declared that "all men are born free and equal." "

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In the picture below is a young boy holding up a sign about how he won't go to school with African Americans. Although he might not have meant it, this is what was expected of him.

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Below is a graph of the proportions of family below the poverty level and the African Americans are in the highest part because they were not given the same job rights as white people were.

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Below is a picture of a white person's water fountain vs. a black person's water fountain.

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A newspaper from May of 1954, after the Brown V. Board of Education case.

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Rosa Parks sitting on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Protestors on the streets holding up signs demanding jobs, housing, and equal rights.

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The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.

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The Civil Rights Memorial is a memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. The memorial is a circular black granite table records the names of the martyrs and chronicles the history of the movement in the lines that radiate like the hands of a clock. The people identified on the table include people targeted for death because of their civil rights activities; random victims of vigilantes determined to halt the movement; and those who, in the sacrifice of their own lives, brought a new awareness of the civil rights struggle to people all over the world.
https://www.splcenter.org/civil-rights-memorial

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Brown v. Board of Education: A group of five legal appeals challenged the "separate but equal" basis for racial segregation in public schools in Kansas, Virginia, Delaware, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia. This case was actually the name given to five separate cases that were heard by the US Supreme Court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools. In this case the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Soon after the court decision, election outcomes and the political climate in Topeka changed. This case began to end segregation in Topeka elementary schools in 1953, integrating two attendance districts. All of the Topeka elementary schools were changed to neighborhood attendance centers by 1956.
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/brown/whatwas.htm
http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment

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The main goals were to end segregation, desegregate schools and other public places, access to jobs and housing, reverse separate but equal, and just having equality in general. The methods used were mainly based around lobbying, protesting, and boycotting. Boycotting was done in mass community protests and they were extremely non-violent and labeled by Martin Luther King Jr. as Civil Disobedience. Protest could last for many days or even months at a time. African Americans did not care how long they had to protest, all they cared about was getting the freedom that they deserved.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/political-science-and-government/political-parties-and-movements/civil

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Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in southern states still inhabited an unequal world. "Jim Crow" laws barred them from classrooms, bathrooms, theaters, train cars, and from juries and legislatures. Many leaders from within the African American community and beyond rose to prominence during the Civil Rights, including Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcom X, Andrew Goodman, and many others.  Each of these leaders risked their lives for freedom and equality. The initial starting point of the movement was with Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider, defying a southern custom that required blacks to give sears toward the from of the buses to whites. She was then arrested and taken to jail. When she was jailed, a black community boycott the city's buses began and this is when the movement really got started.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement