Three Causes Of The Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement took place in the United States from 1954 to 1968. A time period where African Americans were being treated unequally and poorly. Civil resistances and much more constantly through towns of inequality and major campaigns. This went on until 1964 when the Civil Rights Act was passed, but what really caused the Civil Rights movement of that time? There were at least three causes: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Summer, and the rise of black nationalism. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the start of what went on to be the Civil Rights Movement when a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus, was forced to sit in the back and was left at the bus stop by driver James F. Blake.