Civil Rights Movement 1910s-1960s

The Civil Rights movement of the 1910s-1960s was the biggest and most important movement in American history. It changed how things worked in the South, granting us African Americans our basic rights. This movement showed America what we can do as a whole community. African Americans can dream, we can march, we can fight until we are all granted equality and civil rights. Racism will never go away, many acts of violence are still being brought against us. People like JFK, Rosa Parks, and MLK all played a part in the civil rights movement. Our youth would participate in the civil rights movement like the march in Washington or the march to Alabama. We could integrate like Ruby Bridges, we could preach like MLK Jr., we could teach like Booker T. Washington, and we could invent like Gerratt Morgan. As a community, we can do all these things, but

The racial tensions in the south were horrible. African Americans were beaten and killed by white officers.

The great migration was a large international march that included over 6 million African Americans who fled from the south to the north to seek jobs and more opportunities between the 1910s and 1970s. During WWI, many cities in the Midwest, like Chicago or Detroit, became common destinations. African Americans who fought in the war thought people in the south would truly see and understand what blacks were capable of, but nothing really changed and they decided to also move to the north. The march on Washington was also a famous march to Washington, D.C. that involved more than 200,000 people who congregated in Washington. It was coordinated by Bayard Rustin, a veteran strategist who’s goal was to have hundreds of thousands of people participate in a non-violent, peaceful, civil rights demonstration that would show an urge for substantial change. People