Discuss the strategy and major legislative accomplishments (provide at least two examples) of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. What changed?

The Civil Rights Movement was a social movement against racial segregation and discrimination against African-Americans in the United States, operating in the 1950s and 1960s. Its main objective was to abolish laws establishing racial segregation and to enforce constitutional rights applicable to African-Americans.

The strategies of this movement were non-violent, and varied according to the circumstances. So you can find examples of boycotts, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 after the Rosa Parks incident; sit-ins, such as the one that took place in Greensboro, North Carolina, where university students demanded equal treatment of African-American students in Woolworth stores, which segregated African-American clients; or even marches, such as the Selma March to Montgomery in 1965.

Mass protests and demonstrations led in 1964 to the approval of the Civil Rights Act, which guaranteed equal voting rights to all, prohibited discrimination on the grounds of race, religion, gender or national origin, thus supporting the possible abolition of school segregation.

Another victory of the movement was the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which guaranteed federal protection for all black residents wishing to exercise their right to vote.