Most Significant Events Of The Civil Rights Movement

Presley Knupp
Mrs. Doerr
ELA 8th
10, February 2023
The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement is one of the most significant events in history, and although it had a good outcome, the road to getting there was more challenging than it may seem. The Civil Rights Movement ended discrimination/segregation in every state in the USA. This was done through Protests, marches, laws, many years of determination, and the courageous leaders of this event. On July 2, 1964, The Civil Rights Act was signed. This ended segregation for good and ensured all citizens had equal rights and protection (“Civil Rights Movement”). The Civil Rights Movement caused significant changes in history and had many important events that kids are still learning about

“Martin Luther King Jr. was the driving force behind watershed events such as the Montgomery bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington, which helped bring about such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday since 1986” (“Civil Rights Movement”). While these are only some of the more known civil rights activists there are many more that played a part in getting the people where they are

However, even though this amendment was supposed to protect them, people did not change their wicked ways of separation and violence. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that White and African Americans could be separated but their resources had to be equal. Jump forward to the 1940s and colored citizens were offered government jobs and segregation ended in the military (“Civil Rights Movement”). In the 1950s Rosa Parks got arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white person. “Parks’ courage incited the MIA to stage a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days. On November 14, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled segregated seating was unconstitutional” (“Civil Rights Movement”). The Montgomery bus Boycott led to the coming out of many leaders that would all contribute to essential steps for this movement (“Civil Rights Movement”). In 1957 The civil rights act said that the federal forces were allowed to arrest any citizen that was trying to prevent other citizens from their right to vote or their right to be employed. In 1961 President Kennedy made sure that all public transport would not be racially segregated. In 1963 the March on Washington took place which then led to the signing of the civil rights act of 1964 (“Civil Right Movement”). After this law was passed many other small laws were passed to help prevent racial conduct in the future, however, the