Civil Rights Movements

The period between the year of 1955 and 1965 has been the peak time for Civil Rights Movements. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the congress along with the voting rights of 1965. This civil right attempted to establish equality among all Americans irrespective of their color or race. It has taken almost a decade of nonviolent marches and actions by certain major people like Martin Luther King. The incident that initiated this is the Montgomery bus boycott of the 1960 which resulted in a huge March on Washington in the year 1933.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott:

The official start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott took place on the 1^st December of 1955. On this very day the black people in Montgomery decided not to use the city buses for transportation until they would be allowed to sit anywhere in the bus. Actually ,this movement has started way back when a black woman named Rosa Parks who paid the bus fair, still the bus drove off when she tried to enter through the rear door. And again in the year of 1949, it has started when the bus driver screamed at the black professor Jo Ann Robinson when she sat at the front place where the white are allotted to sit in an empty bus. Then again it has started when the black pastor Vernon Johns was compelled to leave his seat to a white man. He then asked all the black men and women to leave a bust to show the protest.

Racial discrimination:

The main ambition of the civil rights movement is to outlaw the racial discrimination that are effected against the African American and restore the voting rights in the southern states of America. The black power movement which emerged around 1966 has made an enlargement in the ideas of the Civil Rights Movement.

Nonviolent protests:

Freedom from the oppression of the white Americans has been the main motto of this movement with sincere attempt to attain racial dignity and political self-sufficiency. The civil disobedience and the nonviolent protest have been the major campaigns of the civil rights movements between 1955 and 1968. These operations by the movements have resulted in crisis situations produced which has thrown to light the inequities that are faced by the African American. Of the various boycotts taken by the African American, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, sit-ins, and Greensboro sit-ins (1960) are of major importance. Of the marches held by the African American, the Selm to Montogmery marches in 1965 has been the turning point of the African American relationship.