The civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s aimed to end racial discrimination and inequality between black and white people in the southern United States. Black people faced segregation in public places like schools and restaurants and lacked basic rights like voting. Martin Luther King Jr. led nonviolent protests including marches and boycotts calling for equal rights for black citizens, culminating in his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. However, some opposed integration through violent groups like the Ku Klux Klan and King was later assassinated in 1968.

1. The civil rights movement in America in 1950/60s was a movement against inequality
between coloured and white people. There was a lot of racial discrimination against
coloured people in the southern USA.
Many public transport and places were separated in black and white groups.. Schools,
hotels, restaurants were divided in white and coloured places.
Schools were not as good for the coloured people as they were for the white people.
Coloured people could not vote and had a lot less rights to do any thing than the whites.
Coloured people were paid less than whites and worked longer hours.
The whites (police and normal people) punished blacks more severely than the whites.
The blacks fought by leaving the south, in the courts of justice, by marches and boycotts.
The Ku Klux Klan is an organization against the civil rights movement and for the
separation of black and white people. They used violence and murder against their enemies
(blacks and whites).
Martin Luther King was black and he said that blacks should have the same rights as
whites.
He fought using non violent methods such as boycotts, marches, speeches. His most speech
is the “I have a dream” speech in 1963. He spoke in this speech about a country without
separation between blacks and whites.
He died in 1968, assassinated by a white criminal, James Earl Ray.