Struggle of the Civil Rights Movement Many social change movements have occurred throughout the history of the United States. One movement was acknowledged as the Civil Rights Movement, the movement that fought for equality of all people in the 1960s. People’s rights were violated based on one’s skin color. African Americans faced discrimination and were deemed less than man and less than human, while white southerners wanted the power. From the 1950s through 1960s, African Americans tried to peacefully protest to gain equal rights among all racial diversities throughout the north and south. I. Post Reconstruction Era In the post reconstruction era, many African Americans faced policies that restricted their freedom. Racial segregation was enforced by the Jim Crow Laws until 1964. African Americans were deceived into only making low wages and the same services as slaves when the black codes were passed. Whites were angry with them having freedom and lashed out with more violence and racial attacks in retaliation. II. African American Resistance Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was one of many ideas developed by a group of African Americans. They developed practices and associations that either confronted or were poised to confront discrimination. Their goal involved …show more content…
Ferguson, ruled that states could pass a law with the use of “separate but equal” facilities for white and colored persons, only if the quality of the facilities were the same. Another trial, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas overturned the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson case for segregation in the educational facilities in 1954. The US Supreme Court rejected the Plessy doctrine by declaring that “separate educational facilities” were “inherently unequal” because the intangible inequalities of segregation deprived black students of equal protection under the law. The case was ruled was finalized with