The civil rights movement was a mass popular movement to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. Although the roots of the movement go back to the 19th century, it peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.

African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and other ethnics started different movements to fight for their equal rights and having equality in the United States.

which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote.

-Reconstruction Era- The North was trying to rebuild the South.

-14th Amendment- this gave African Americans their citizenship.

-15th Amendment - This gave African Americans men their right to vote.

-Jim Crow laws/ era - Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites, , Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s

- Plessey V. Ferguson- (1896) The Court ruled that segregation was not discriminatory (did not violate black civil rights under the Fourteenth Amendemnt) provide that blacks received accommodations equal to those of whites.

-Brown v. Board of Education (1954) separate but equal has no place in public education against
KS, VA, DE and SC

-Brown II Case (1955)
ordered desegregation
“with all deliberate speed”

All of these leaders played huge roles in the Civil Rights Movement and helped influence others to fight for their basic human rights.

Intended to protect African-American neighborhoods from police brutality. They guns for self protection. The Black Panthers were inspired by the teaching of Malcolm X.

-ended de jure segregation

-Civil Rights Act of 1968
banned housing discrimination


-Increase #’s registered to vote
Increased elected black officials

-affirmative action
making a special effort to hire or enroll groups that have suffered from discrimination in the past