How The Civil Rights Movement Changed American Society

The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s changed American society forever. The Civil Rights movement started in the mid-1950s. The goal was to give African Americans the same rights that whites in the country took for granted. They were tired of being treated as second class citizens. In the 60s the movement finally started to achieve its goals both in judicial and legislative victories against discrimination. The activists focused on Southern racial discrimination, the Jim Crow system and discrimination in education. Campaigns like Freedom Summer were created. It was a campaign that attempted to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. Southern states like Mississippi had effectively blocked African Americans