Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. It was accompanied by much civil unrest and popular rebellion. The process was long and tenuous in many countries, and most of these movements did not achieve or fully achieve their objectives. In it's later years, the Civil Rights Movement took a sharp turn to the radical left in many cases.

The civil Rights movement was worldwide. The laws were passed somewhere between 1950 and 1980. The process took a long time. In the civil rights movement there was something that happened when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a city bus in Alabama. After all this happened there was a boycott and there was also a big march that they did to show that it was wrong that Rosa parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man. The legendary events, however, did not cause the modern Civil Rights Movement, but were instead important moments in a campaign of direct action that began two decades before the first sit-in demonstration.


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