The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement was an important part of history. It was the way black people tried to fight for their rights, and to stop segregation under the law. The way the black people fight was not with punches or violence but with nonviolent protests. The Civil Rights Movement began in America, in 1955 with Rosa Parks and ended with the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968

Segregation

Racial Segregation is defined as the systemic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups. The way the black people were excluded from the normal society was like this: Black and whites could not drink from the same water fountain, sit on the same bench, blacks had to give op his or her seat on the bus if a white person needed a seat, blacks could not vote, black and whites could not sit in the same part In restaurants.

The way that segregation started was with the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were a set of laws named after a theatrical show called Jump Jim Crow, which was performed at the end of the 1820s by white actors who had painted their faces black and impersonated black people.