Civil Rights Events Blog

                                                      Brown Vs. Board of Education 1954

                                                     1995-1996 Montgomery Boycott

                                                The 1957-1958 Little Rock school crisis

                                                   Sit-ins and freedom rides of the early

                                               1963 Civil Rights Protest in Birmingham

                                                         1963 March on Washington

 The Civil Rights movement took place in the 1950s and into the 1960s.The purpose was to promote Civil Rights for African Americans many of whom protested the way they were treated. They wanted to stop segregation and injustice once and for all. They resorted to violence to prove their point.