During the 1960s, many groups such as Freedom Riders, marchers and

boycotters etc. protested for freedom albeit many obstacles they faced.
Throughout the 1960's, bus riding Freedom Riders, marchers, boycotters and
other protesters continued their protestfor freedom and were met with fierce
white and establishment resistance. Riots, bombings, beatings and shootings
were common as growing thousands of civil rights protesters marched
throughout the South and in many cases the North as well.

Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s

and 60s broke the pattern of public facilities being segregated by
race in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough
in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the
Reconstruction period (186577). Although the passage in 1964 and
1965 of major civil rights legislation was victorious for the
movement, by then militant black activists had begun to see their
struggle as a freedom or liberation movement not just seeking civil
rights reforms but instead confronting the enduring economic,
political, and cultural consequences of past racial oppression.
The American civil rights movement became a serious concern
during the mid-1950s to 1960s. Due to discrimination and racial
seclusion, this protest was made from the southern region of United
States. African slaves and their ancestors had to endure harsh
racism but tried their best to stop slavery. As a result of Civil War,
African Americans were given standard civil rights although there
were major concerns in relation to federal safety.