(BBHT) Lesson Topic 1: Civil Rights Movement

What rights do you have in your family? In your school? At your job? How have you achieved those rights? How do you keep the rights or privileges you have obtained and how does it make you feel when you lose some of those rights and privileges?

Civil rights are the rights of full citizenship and equality under the law. The Civil Rights movement (1955-1968) refers to the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them.

The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities. Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to these situations that highlighted the inequities faced by African-Americans. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama, "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins in North Carolina, marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama, and a wide range of other non-violent activities. 

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