 In the 1950s and 1960s, the growing discontent among black Americans about their continuous mistreatment in the US culminated into the formation of the Civil Rights Movement.Actions led by African-Americans nationwide, such as in the court case "Brown vs. Board of Education", the Montgomery bus boycotts, the Little Rock Nine's enrollment in a segregated school, the Nashville sit-ins, and the Freedom Summer voter registration drive, helped spur federal action that slowly broke down racial segregation in the South and most were achieved through nonviolent means.While much of the attention was focused on the South, little had been paid to the conditions in the North and West.