Black civil rights history focuses on the period 1950s and the 1960s. The rights of Africans and African-Americans had been wiped out during almost 400 years of domination. But the 1950s and 1960s indicated a time when the civil rights movement took control and changed the course of America.
The civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph once said that freedom is never given, it is won. For periods African-Americans had to fight for many rights that white Americans had taken for granted. The right to education, voting rights, fair employment and desegregated public facilities were all forbidden for the black population of America. The civil rights movement changed the course of history in America by taking action that would change the law to grant these civil rights.
The struggle for the freedom that white Americans took for granted was not a simple case of protests and demonstrations. The struggle included the documented deaths of many African-Americans and the thousands more that went undocumented. Civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both assassinated during their struggle to attain civil rights and the integration of black and white in America. During the sixties America was undergoing a racial explosion and it was at this point in history when the civil rights movement changed America’s thinking.
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