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Compare And Contrast The Key Figures Of The Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement of the 60’s and modern social movements today are similar and different in many ways. The Civil Rights movement was a movement that focused on fighting for Black Americans to gain equal rights in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. There were many different ways that the people who were fighting for justice used, like majority peaceful or non peaceful protest. Events like Little Rock Nine, Freedom Riders, and Bloody Sunday were all examples of the movements used to fight for Black American rights. Some key figures of the Civil Rights movements were people like Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks who were famous for different reasons since King led many of the movements and was a famous Civil Rights activist
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