The Civil Rights Movement (also known as the American civil rights movement, African - American civil rights movement, and other terms,) was a human rights movement from 1954 -- 1968 that encompassed strategies, groups, and social movements to accomplish its goal of ending legalized racial segregation and discrimination laws in the United States. The movement secured the legal recognition and federal protection of black Americans in the United States Constitution and federal law.
when did the american civil rights movement end
1968