African-American Civil Rights Movement

The African-American Civil Rights Movement refers to the social movements in the U.S. aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring voting rights to them. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1955 and 1968, particularly in the South. The emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from oppression by white Americans. The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities. Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to these situations that highlighted the inequities faced by African Americans. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities. I saw 'THE HELP', in my english class. This movie is about african women who work as a hleper of american people. They fired of using bathroom of their owner's. also they couldn't use same table. American hated to touch spoon or sth that the help touched. it seems thats african had no civil rights. In this movie, a young women who think this is unfair, tried to persuad the help and made a book about thier story. They refused at first, but they decided to do it. (after the acident that american killed african without any reason) after publishing of the book ' THE HELP', people who read it start to understand the help's unfair rights in every parts of their life. I think it is the begining of african civil movement.