African American Civil Rights movements

     The struggle for equality has been an important part of the United States history, it has helped shape our nation, and the  way citizens and the government view Civil Rights movements have achieved major goals like post-Civil War amendments and the legislation based on these that have not only ensured African Americans citizenship but has also helped women, minorities, disabled individuals, and other groups victims of discrimination to gain equality.
    After years of being mistreated, abused and discriminated African Americans began to challenge white power once again in a time were civil movements flourished and the people wanted change. In the nineteen hundreds groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) began challenging segregation. The NAACP founded in 1909 gave legal assistance to African Americans that  were charged for civil disobedience or racial   based charges. The NAACP used cases like the one of Rosa Parks In Montgomery, Alabama to challenge segregation with nonviolent resistance. The Montgomery case led to the creation in 1957 of the clergy-led Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a local organization led by Martin Luther King a prominent leader of the bus boycott in Montgomery. King became the main speaker but must of the black movements were organized by members of the communities. On February  1, 1960 four freshmen of the Agricultural and Technical College began a series of sit-ins in southern; these series of sit-ins lead in April 1960 to the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).  These three organizations together with the CORE helped destroyed segregation in the country Voting Rights Act of 1965.
    Today African Americans form about 12% of the United states population, but still the struggle for equality continues . Not only African Americans had fought for their rights but they served as an example for the creation of other groups. African Americans civil right movements have shift our nations constitution and our present way of life, that is why one as citizen must fight for justice and promote equal treatment to create a new and brighter future.


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http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/birth-nation-naacp-and-balancing-rights