Civil Rights are defined by Merriam-Webster as the rights that every person should have regardless of his or her sex, race or religion. The fifties planted the seeds for the cultural conflict that traversed the nation in the sixties, a time when civil rights in inequality, an unfair situation in which some people have more rights or better opportunities than other people, created division and discord. Injustices such as the denial of full citizenship rights, equal opportunity in education, jobs, access to transportation and public facilities experienced by African Americans led to The Civil Rights Movement in the United States and a time of social unrest. The Civil Rights Movement was about the campaign of African Americans who had visions of equality and sought social change. Janie Mae Overton was an African American woman who, along with many others, was actively involved in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. Her involvement included participation in non-violent demonstrations, sit-ins and marches against inequality and social injustice which was the African American experience. …show more content…
Some of the most important achievements of African American Civil Rights Movements have been constitutional amendments, notably the Supreme court’s Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This paper will focus on the Civil Rights Movement, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, CORE and the Freedom Riders, and a personal interview with Miss Janie Mae Overton who, at a very young age, became a Civil Rights