what is the civil rights movement?

Question

and who started it

Answer 1

The Civil Rights movement happened in the 1960s in the states of Alabma and Mississippi and other nearby states. Many southern states had enacted laws that segregated whites from blacks and the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that this was unconstitutional. Rosa Parks was a black woman who tried to ride a bus in Alabama while sitting in a whites only section of the bus. She got arrested for violating the segregation laws, and this started hte Montgomery Bus Boycotts. The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior also played a big role in these events, helping to organize them.

Answer 2

The African-American Civil Rights Movement refers to a set of events and reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans; this article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South. By 1966, the emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged and gradually eclipsed the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from white authority. Several scholars refer to the Civil Rights Movement as the Second Reconstruction, a name that alludes to the Reconstruction after the Civil War.