The United States Civil Rights Movement was about black Americans trying gain racial equality and to achieve full citizenship rights, this was a social, political, and legal struggle for them. The Civil Rights movement was a very big challenge to segregation. Many things happened during the Civil Rights Movement, individuals and organizations challenged segregation and discrimination, which included protest marches, and refusal to abide by segregation laws. The movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott …showed first 75 words of 1577 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1577 total…teaching Black history to children. Many people argue that the Civil Rights Movement ended two years later, when on April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Following his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, riots erupted in 125 U.S. cities. To many this sparked the end to the Civil Rights Movement. Others argued that it ended with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and yet others contended that it was a struggle still going on.