The civil rights movement .

The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.The black people where fighting for the rights they wanted not to have segregation to be happening .

Protecting civil rights is an essential part of the democratic values of the United States.The separate but equal is racially segregated but ensuring equal opportunities to all races.They really struggled they didn't have acknowledge .