What is Civil Rights Movement?
{{Infobox civil conflict|place=[[United States]]|title=Civil Rights Movement|causes=[[Racism]]<br>[[Racial segregation]]|goals=[[Racial integration]]|methods=[[Nonviolence]]<br>[[Protest|Protests]]<br>[[Civil disobedience]]<br>[[Lawsuit|Lawsuits]]|status=Concluded|date=[[Brown v. Board of Education|May 17, 1954]] – [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|April 4, 1968]]|result=|concessions=''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]''<br>[[Civil Rights Act of 1964]]<br>[[Voting Rights Act of 1965]]<br>[[Civil Rights Act of 1968]]|side1=Civil Rights Movement|partof=[[Cold War]]|side2={{Flagicon image|Flag_of_the_United_States_(DoS_ECA_Color_Standard).svg}} [[Federal government of the United States]]|side3=[[Black Power movement]]|leadfigures1=[[Martin Luther King Jr.]] †<br>[[Rosa Parks]]<br>[[John Lewis]]|leadfigures2={{Flagicon image|Flag_of_the_President_of_the_United_States.svg}} [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]<br>{{Flagicon image|Flag_of_the_President_of_the_United_States.svg}} [[John F. Kennedy]] †<br>{{Flagicon image|Flag_of_the_President_of_the_United_States.svg}} [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]<br>{{Flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation.svg}} [[J. Edgar Hoover]]|leadfigures3={{Flagicon image|Nation_of_Islam_flag.svg}} [[Elijah Muhammad]]<br>{{Flagicon image|Nation_of_Islam_flag.svg}} [[Malcolm X]] †<br>[[Huey P. Newton]]|units1=[[SCLC]]<br>[[SNCC]]<br>[[NAACP]]|units2=[[Police#Police in different countries|Police forces]]<br>[[FBI]]<br>[[KKK]]|units3=[[Nation of Islam|NOI]]<br>[[Black Panther Party|BPP]]|image=1963_march_on_washington.jpg|caption=[[Protest|Protesters]] at the [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]] in 1963}} The '''Civil Rights Movement''' was a [[social movement]] in the [[United States]] that tried to gain equal rights for African Americans that European Americans had. The movement is famous for using [[nonviolence|non-violent]] [[protest]]s and [[civil disobedience]] (peacefully refusing to follow unfair laws). [[Activism|Activists]] used strategies like [[boycott]]s, [[sit-in]]s, an