Summary Of The Civil Movement

The civil movement was a huge movement that begun in the 18th century to secure African Americans equal rights and opportunities as any other U.S. citizen. It ended segregation of schools, public transportation and many other. It gave blacks the right to vote, and the right to equal education as whites. At the end of the civil war American slaves were emancipated but was not granted the basic civil rights of the 14th and 15th amendments of the U.S. constitution. Confederate states especially the ones in the South refused to acknowledge emancipation and insist that slaves were property. In spite of the facts that the constitution stated all men are equal, white leader ordered new laws to fortify the "Jim Crow" arrangement of racial isolation and segregation. In its Plessy v. Ferguson, the supreme court ruled that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional disregarding proof that the offices for blacks were sub-par compared to those expected for whites. Jim crow laws also imposed restrictions that left blacks unqualified to vote, for example the literacy test.
Washington were advocates for civil rights for blacks in America. The 1954 the NAACP – sponsored case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. This was a major win for African American and ushered in an era in civil rights. The NAACP continued to change history and change laws especially down in the south. white supremacist groups as the Ku Klux Klan and the Citizens' Council organized to resist desegregation, sometimes resorting to violence. President Eisenhower dispatched federal troops to protect 13 black students from little rock Arkansas because they were chosen to attend an all-white