| > | | | | The American civil rights movement achieved legal |
| Civil rights movements are the significant part of | | | | victory against Board of Education in 1954 known |
| American history. The appearance of the Black | | | | as Brown decision, legislation of the Civil Rights |
| Power Movement, which lasted from 1966 to | | | | Act of 1964, Voting Rights of Act in 1965, |
| 1975, blown up and steadily eclipsed the aims of | | | | Immigration and Nationality Services Act in 1965 |
| the Civil Rights Movement to embrace racial | | | | and finally the Civil Rights of Act of 1968. |
| seemliness, economic and political independence, | | | | However, the movement did not follow the same |
| and lack of restrictions from white power. | | | | set of organization, discourse, and tactics to |
| Discriminatory laws and violence in racial sense | | | | become a major force to bring change in the |
| directed to African Americans had started to | | | | society. Churches and local grassroots |
| flourish in the US by the last decade of the | | | | organizations sometimes gained importance, and |
| nineteenth century, a period sometimes referred | | | | brought with them a much more energetic and |
| to as the lowest point of American race affairs. | | | | broad-based style than the more legalistic |
| In many states government officials had began to | | | | approach of groups such as the NAACP. |
| call for or allow discrimination. NAACP used lawsuit | | | | Movement leaders used political opportunity |
| and lobbying efforts to eliminate discrimination | | | | structure to spread the movement and to gain |
| against African Americans before the Civil Rights | | | | legal rights. From 1955 to 1965, movement |
| Movement of 1955 to 1968. By 1955, private | | | | strategy changed to direct action and mass |
| citizens, annoyed by slow advances to implement | | | | mobilization, such as bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom |
| desegregation by federal and state authorities, | | | | rides. The aim of this study is to examine the |
| espoused a joint tactic of direct action and | | | | external and internal factors influencing the |
| peaceful resistance known as civil | | | | development of civil rights movement in the US. |
| disobedience. Forms of civil disobedience | | | | A short story of development of the movement |
| engaged comprised boycotts, "sit-ins" and | | | | will be described before going into the external |
| marches. | | | | and internal factors influencing the movement. |