How did the Civil Rights Movement Begin?
The Civil Rights Movement does not have an actual date that it began because the protesting and fighting for their rights was always there. Black people were always being treated unfairly and The Civil Rights Movement gathered all those people to join together and make a change in America and show the government and the country that they are people too, they deserve the same rights, they deserve the same chances whites get in America and they are willing to show it by protesting and boycotts and other kinds of gatherings. Using their leaders as moral supporters. It became a bigger thing when leaders were getting involved, when gatherings became larger and more people united together to create the change they wanted to see and have in America. The Civil Rights Movement began when blacks and some whites joined to protest unfair laws and to help gain equal rights for blacks. The Segregation Law: In December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress refused to play apart in the Segregation law. When she entered a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, she took a seat in the “black” rows in the back of the bus. When the bus filled up she was asked to move so that a white man could seat down instead of her. She refused to let him have her seat and was arrested because of that. In most southern states, restaurants, bars, toilets, parks and public facilities were strictly segregated. Jim Crow Laws: Some states did not allow intermarriages, Wyoming, Missouri, Mississippi, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, and Arizona. Some states forbidden blacks to sit next to whites on Railroads, Alabama, Maryland, and Virginia. Some states separated white schools and black school and that lacked the education of black people, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, and Texas. Black did not have legal equality, even with the 14th amendment that gave blacks the right for citizenship. They were not given equal transportation, education, job payment, voting rights, and high job opportunities. Black people did not have the freedom to choose where and how to live, it was illegal to make contracts to rent, sell, of give housing to black people.