What difficulties did people face when fighting for civil rights between 1951-1965?

Answer 1

Fear, intimidation, beatings, MURDERS, waterhoses, police dogs, rabid counter-protestors, RESISTANCE TO CHANGE (even some in tne African American community, because of the fear and brainwashing over a couple of centuries) investigations into their private lives, incarceration for peaceful non-violent protest, and poverty.
For those who worked in the movement, by dropping out of college, as many SNCC members did, they gave up the potential to earn more over a lifetime. Working in the civil rights movement was NOT a paying job. Many never made it back to college to get the degrees they were seeking.

I'm grateful to God for those who lost their lives, and to those who altered thier livelihoods to better our country, by ensuring that American finally did acknowledge the civil rights of all its citizens. They are heros. We all owe them a great debt.

Answer 2

The status quo of the governments. Many of which were only giving lip service to civil rights. Even today people are having their civil rights violated. The two attacks in Baltimore recently on the white people, by black people,points up the fact that only the so called minorities have rights. These were hate crimes, but because the victims were white, they are being called assaults.