The civil rights movement was started in the Era of Reconstruction. The era of reconstruction basically consisted of the reconstruction and revival of European countries, which were badly affected by the destruction caused by the world wars. The movement was conducted in its true spirit in the early 1950s and 1960s. The Civil Rights Movement was initiated by the Afro-Americans of the United States of America to gain equal rights in every walk of life, like equality and freedom of speech that white Americans enjoy.
Blacks were slaves of white people, and slave owners treated their slaves inhumanely. The movement was very effective and successive, and as a result of the civil rights movement, slavery was abolished, and blacks were granted all basic rights such as nationality and citizenship, equal opportunities for employment, the right to vote and basic facilities. The president of the USA at that time was Abraham Lincoln, who was anti-slavery. The credit for abolishing slavery goes to him. The movement began when an Afro -American women refused to give her seat to a white American and she was arrested, as a result protest arose in the country by the African Americans to stop discrimination and segregation on the bases of race and color. It was a freedom struggle by the blacks to gain freedom and equality from the white people. The period of the civil rights movement was an important time in the history of the United States of America. It is also known as the American civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement accomplished its goal of achieving equal rights in the social, political, and economic spheres of life. That’s why it has significance in American history. After this successive movement, the United States of America truly embraced and promoted its values of equality, freedom and democracy, on the basis of which the United States gained independence from Great Britain.
