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This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of African slaves and their descendants to resist racial oppression and abolish the entire institution of slavery. Although American slaves were emancipated as a result of the Civil War and were then granted basic civil rights through the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments, struggles to secure federal protection of these rights continued during the next century. Through mostly nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s broke the pattern of public facilities’ being segregated by race in the south and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period (1865–77).

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The goals of the African American Civil Rights movement were to end segregation, desegregate schools and other public facilities, gain good access to jobs and housing, reverse “separate but equal” clauses, and have overall general equality. To gain these African Americans had court cases, sit-ins, boycotts, non-violent protest, and marches. Some famous court cases are Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education.

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Freedom Summer was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 in attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. volunteers are shown in the picture below.

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Brown VS. Board of Education of Topeka, KS

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Brown VS. Board of Education of Topeka, KS

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Believed to be the most significant Supreme Court case in fight to end segregation argued by Thurgood Marshall, a symbolic leader of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). This case ruled that “there is no place for separate but equal in public education”. It overturned the ruling of the Plessy v. Ferguson case which stated that “separate but equal” was Constitutional.
This case led to the desegregation of schools in 21 states.

This image depicts African Americans protesting the segregation of schools.

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This image shows the thousands of people protesting for freedom and equality in Washington DC on August 28th, 1963.

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This event began because Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white woman. The image below depicts this.

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This chart shows the amount of people who were in favor of the bill, opposed to the bill, and unsure of the bill.

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On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. African American's sitting at the counter of a restraunt was strictly forbidden.

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Countless African Americans fought so hard for so long on their way to freedom. Every person deserves to have the same rights, equality is a key to a good functioning society. But even today, decades later, people still experience racial prejudice and discrimination in our court system, public places, and even through social media. Overall, there will never be a 100% equalized society but we still need to fight to keep it as close as we can.

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https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/index.htm
The Martin Luther King Jr.  Memorial honors all of his efforts in the fight to african american equality and freedom.

This monument is located in downtown Washington D.C.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJTQubbS7VY

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"Segregation was not abstract to black people living in the South; it was about everyday life. It touched every corner of southern existence imaginable."

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" 'Another man done gone' was the painfully ambiguous, often bitter cry that was so familiar to the black community of the United States in the 1950s."

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This is an image of Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his most famous, I have a dream, speech.

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https://www.britannica.com/event/American-civil-rights-movement

https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/index.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJTQubbS7VY

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott