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.
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The Reconstruction Era occurred right after the civil war. So the civil war caused the reconstruction era to begin.
The most obvious and immediate predecessor of the 1960s civil rights era movement for equal rights to African Americans was abolitionism.
The Civil War
It was the era before the Civil War.
The reconstruction era was good because it allowed the freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 to be passed. It was also win the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed. Also great sucesses like the Reconsrtuction Act of 1867 were passed.