What were the goals for the civil rights movement?

Ch.29. The Civil Rights Movement. 1. What were the goals of the Civil Rights Movement? Goals: 1. end segregation. 2. desegregate schools and other public facilities. 3. access to jobs and housing. 4. reverse “separate but equal”. 5. equality in general. 2. What were the strategies of the movement participants? read more

Fifty years after the Selma to Montgomery marches, Americans see progress, but 54 percent (including 72 percent of blacks) think only some or none of the goals of Martin Luther King and the 1960s civil rights movement have been achieved. read more

The main goals of the civil rights era were to end “de jure” segregation, i.e., the institutional and legal segregation “by law,” mostly the Jim Crow laws that were passed after the failure of Reconstruction in the post-Civil War era. read more