I think it started because how black people were being miss treated and not repected equal, so afracan Americans got angry.
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To give publicity to the struggle for civil rights.
To pressure the government to support civil rights
Yes only temp though when the north stop having military station there prejudice southerns took matters of taking them away. Blacks began receiving rights in 1865, but with the implementation of anti-freedmen organizations, such as the KKK (b. 1865), blacks' newfound rights were being taken away. The later "civil rights movement" was blacks fighting to gain those rights back & to receive a more equal standing in America.
The civil rights era began when a African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man. This started a boycott by other African Americans who refused to sit at the back of the bus. A young minister named, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen to lead the protest and the civil rights movement.
His murder & trial were the start of the Civil Rights Movement