civil rights movement

Civil right are the protection and priveleges of personal power given to all citizens by law. Civil rights are characterized by human rights or natural rights. In the 1950s and 1960s a movement was created called the American Civil Rights movement. This movement was a struggle for equal rights for African-Americans. African Americans suffered from racial segregation and second class citizenship. During the 20th century western societies tried to remove discrimination such as race, gender and disabilities begining with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Blacks were not allowed to use the same restrooms as the whites, were not allowed to sit in the front of the buses because they were reserved for the whites and they were not allowed any voting rights.

Some strageties against African-Americans was the NAACP which was National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This was an Organization to work on the behalf of the rights of African Americans.

During this time there was a court case that occured, this was called Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. This case was mainly about giving African Americans equal educational rights. It establish separate but equal public school educations between whites and blacks. The out come of this court case came about because of a court case that occured before in 1896 which was called Plessy v. Ferguson which was to assign racial segregated public schools.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights