Google: Civil Rights Movement

Civil rights was when whites controlled blacks and called them bad names. They used to beat them because they were a different race than white. The fight of civil rights happened between 1955-1968. The civil rights movement has also been called the Black freedom movement, the Negro revolution, and the second Reconstruction. Martin Luther King marched, protested, demonstrated, and spoke out against segregation. Within a couple of years, African-American had destroyed the barriers that existed between whites and blacks. In August of 1963, the world watched blacks and whites come together and grant Kings dream of racial equality.