Goals Of The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights movement was an important time period in the United States. The goal of the movement was to put an end to racial segregation and discrimination towards anyone. Civil rights are rights given by nations to their citizens within their territorial boundaries. The civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s aimed to remove racial barriers that confined, degraded, and marginalized racial minorities, particularly blacks. Other goals of the civil right movement were to end segregation, desegregate schools and other public facilities, gain access to jobs and housing, reverse the “separate but equal” and to have equality in general (Corbett, P. Scott, et al. U.S. History 856). The movement’s overall strategy combined litigation, the

Scott, et al. U.S. History 825). and their mission was to end segregation through the courts. Thurgood Marshall, a symbolic leader of NACCP fought for desegregation in public schools in the courts. He argued 32 cases, winning 29 cases. Another big case was the Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka, KS. Probably the most significant Supreme Court case argued By Marshall in his fight to end segregation. This case ruled that “there is no place for separate but equal in public education” (Corbett, P. Scott, et al. U.S. History 844). This case was overturned with Plessy v. Ferguson which said that “separate but equal” was Constitutional. Little Rock Central H.S became a battle ground for the south’s resistance to Brown v. Board of Education. Nine little rock students volunteer to go to Central H.S. There they met opposition from Governor who used the National Guard to stop students from taking classes. President Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened and ordered the troops to escort the students to and from

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested in Alabama for not giving her bus seat (Corbett, P. Scott, et al. U.S. History 849). Her arrest lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This Boycott attempted to desegregate the bus system. It resulted in the desegregation of Montgomery buses after 381 days. Martin Luther King, Jr. who endorsed nonviolent civil disobedience, emerged as a leader of the Boycott. The purpose of the marches was to bring attention to injustices. The Washington March brought millions of people together including labor unions and different organizations. Some of those groups were the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the American Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people from all around the nation came together to peacefully demonstrate their backing to pass a meaningful civil rights bill, an end to racial segregation in schools and the creation of jobs for the black community. The last person but probably most important was Martin Luther King, Jr., who gave a speech that became the most famous speech of the entire civil rights era, the “I Have a Dream” speech, which envisioned a world in which people were