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The Civil Rights Movement developed in 1955 with the
Montgomery Bus Boycott and ended with the Voting Rights
Act of 1965. The movement was established to end
segregation throughout the Southern states. During the movement,
people and different organizations challenged segregation with
protest marches, boycotts, and refusal to obey laws.
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Segregation
Segregation was an attempt by whites in the South to keep different
races separate. Whites used segregation as a form of racial control
over blacks after slavery was ended by the
Thirteenth Amendment. Segregation was often called the Jim Crow
system, named after an old cripple black slave who set negative
images of blacks. With segregation blacks had separate schools,
transportation, entertainment, and public facilities.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the first action taken during
the Civil Rights Movement to end segregation. It was actually
the development of the movement. The boycott was successful
with the help and support of different groups and organizations.
The boycott lasted for more than a year as blacks struggled
for racial equality.
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