The Developing Civil Rights Movement from the late 1940 to the 1960's

The Civil Rights Movement sought to secure the enactment of nation civil rights legislation, elevate racial pride, and change America's social, cultural, and political life in the latter decades of the twentieth century. The Civil Rights Movement had roots in the constitutional amendments enacted during the Reconstruction era. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment expanded the guarantees of federally-protected citizenship rights, and the Fifteenth Amendment barred voting restrictions based on race. However, rights …

…and peaceful demonstrations. New black leaders had started to assert that blacks could achieve more with fists and guns than with nonviolence which lost a lot of white support. The Civil Rights Movement began to collapse because the blacks had lost their unity, some were more interested in black nationalism than in integration. In spite of the movement's collapse, the 1950's and early 60's had exposed the racial injustice in America and had sparked change.