The Civil Rights Movement Between 1865 And 1920's

The Civil Rights Movement took place between 1865 and 1920. It was a movement for blacks to achieve equal rights in the United States but it didn’t end racial discrimination. American slaves were delivered due to the Civil War and were later given basal civil rights through the acceptance of the Fourteenth amendment, addresses the equal protection and rights of former slaves, and the Fifteenth amendment, granted African-American men the right to vote. A struggle to secure these amendments continued through the next century.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln had been convinced that freeing the South’s slaves would help crush the Confederate Rebellion and win the Civil War. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which took place in 1863, declared that all