How Did The Civil Rights Movement Change

Throughout the period of time in which African Americans had to fight for equal rights. Desegregation and racism the United States made massive changes. Beginning with the Jim Crow Laws, the countless court cases and the huge impact on the Civil Rights leaders. Our country made changes with new teachings and changes were made too many different minds. Throughout 1954 in May, Topeka, Kansas the Brown vs. the BOE (Board of Education) made it to where the Supreme Court ruled against segregation of public schools saying it was unconstitutional. To remind you that segregation the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. This means that the white people did not want the black people going to school with them. The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to give them the same rights as the white people. Including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of
was arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail," arguing that individuals have no right to disobey the rights. King was finally released from jail on April 20, four days after sending out the letter. Despite the harsh treatment he and his fellow protestors had received, King’s work in Birmingham continued. Just two weeks later, more than 1,000 school children took part in the “Children’s Crusade.” The children were skipping school to march through the city streets chanting and protesting for integration and equal rights. Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene “Bull” Connor, who King had repeatedly criticized in his letter for his harsh treatment, ordered fire hoses and police dogs be turned on the young protestors; more than 600 of them were jailed on the first day