Aims and methods of the US civil rights movements

Question 1

What are the aims of US civil right movement?

Answer 1

Access for ‘negroes’ to the rights and opportunities of US citizens:

• desegregation in the south
• equality in education
• full voting rights
• economic opportunity

Question 2

What are the methods?

Answer 2

• law courts
• Brown vs Board of Education 1954, which overruled segregation of schools
• negotiations
• petitions
• non violent demonstrations/marches
• Montgomery Bus Boycott 1956 (begun by Rosa Parks) in Alabama
• Sit ins eg. Woolworths lunch counter in Nth Carolina 1960 (wait until served)
• Freedom rides 1961 - to test de-segregation of transport in South
• March on Washington, 1963, Martin Luther King speech