Civil+Rights-+IL

media type="youtube" key="PbUtL_0vAJk" height="381" width="479" align="right".The Civil Rights Movement took place in the South in 1995-1968.By law all facilities, such as schools were separated in the "whites" and "blacks" sections, those for blacks were underfunded. African Americans and other minorities objected to these laws, They resisted it in numerous ways and sought better opportunities through lawsuits, new organizations, political redress, and labor organizing the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). It fought to end race discrimination through litigation, education, and lobbying efforts.The strategy of public education, legislative lobbying, and litigation within the court system that typified the Civil Rights Movement in the first half of the 20th Century broadened after //Brown// to a strategy that emphasized "direct action"—primarily boycotts, sit ins, free rides, marches and similar tactics that relied on mass mobilization, nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks (the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement") refused to give up her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger. A young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr., was president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization that directed the boycott. The protest made King a national figure. His eloquent appeals to Christian brotherhood and American idealism created a positive impression on people both inside and outside the South.