How Long Was The civil rights movement?
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Its still in progress, until there is such a thing as true democracy it will never stop
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I think you are referring to the Ayers Desegregation case.  It was a very lengthy case (at least twenty years).  Check the archives of Jackson, Miss. newspaper www.clarionledger.com
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I don't believe that there were any Civil Rights acts enacted during those years.  1965 was a huge year for the Civil Rights Act.  Some prominent people in the Civil Rights movement during 70-73 would be Jesse Jackson & Gloria Steinem.
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Rosa Parks was the one who sat in the front part of the bus in Montgomery, AL, in 1955. During that time, black people were supposed to sit in the back part of the bus. When she refused to get up from her seat, she was arrested but was released later on because she didn't commit any crime. As the Civil Rights Movement was in swing, she helped launched MLK's career as the Civil Rights leader and hepled the movement get its national momentum. \n\nThat's all I know. But I would suggest for you to go to www.wikipedia.org.  Good luck!
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The list is too lengthly to list here. Starting with Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 and the Civil Rights movement, to the first introduction of the Education of All Handicapped Children Act in 1975, to the total overhaul and repeated revamping of that law into the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in the 1980's and it's repeated revisions, not to mention FERPA, NCLB, and ADA, to a multitude of court cases seeking to define the elements of IDEA (special education policy is really about 99% defined by court cases rather than by legislative actions)... you are asking for almost 60 years of history on a chat forum!  For full details and explanations, it takes a college textbook.  Try here:\n\nhttp://ericec.org/faq/spedhist.html\nhttp://www.parentsunitedtogether.com/page15.html\nhttp://www.reedmartin.com/specialeducationstatutes.htm\nhttp://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/leg/idea/history.html\n\nThese summaries are only really a start.
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LBJ basically brought the civil rights move movement into being, created NASA and lead the nation during the most turbulent period in modern history...more over he finished all the work John Kennedy started..
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Interestingly enough, the 1960's era civil rights movement in America was HIGHLY influenced by Reverand Martin Luther King-whose claim was that the moral laws of God were not being carried out in the laws of America, he used the lack of equality as an example of this. \n\nThis is religion in government. Also, growth in the popular movement for Americans to free their slaves came about because most Northern abolitionists were preachers and church goers who thought slavery was a sin against man. This is why they wanted slave laws removed from their legal systems. \n\nReligion plays a very important role, and though we may claim to govern "secularly" there is no way around the moral influence of religion.
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INTRODUCTION\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMartin Luther King, Jr., is best known nationally and internationally for his leadership of the American Civil Rights Movement [1] and his subsequent efforts to promote world peace and economic equality. The Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, located in the historic east side Atlanta black community where King was reared and to which he later returned in the height of his activism, commemorates King's lifetime achievements. The Site preserves the King Birth Home and the immediate historic black neighborhood where King spent his youth. The larger "Sweet Auburn" community, which served as the economic, cultural, and religious center for Atlanta's segregated black population from 1910 through the 1960s, greatly influenced King both as a youth and as an adult.\n\nOn January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta at 501 Auburn Avenue within a prosperous black commercial and residential district. He lived in this house with his mother, father, grandparents, sister, brother, and an occasional boarder until he was twelve years old. King attended public schools nearby and walked to services at Ebenezer Baptist, where his maternal grandfather and father served as ministers. In 1941, the family moved to another house within the Auburn Avenue community, and King commuted to Atlanta University on the west side to attend high school classes. As an adult, King left Atlanta to attend Crozer Seminary, in Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, and continued his education at Boston University. King led the members of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. while completing his doctorate in theology at Boston University. After serving in Montgomery for six years, King traveled to Atlanta to help organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, and eventually moved to the city in 1960. The dominant force in the SCLC, King also co-pastored at Ebenezer Baptist Church in the Auburn Avenue community with his father.\n\nFew nationally significant civil rights activities occurred under King's mantle in Atlanta. However, King served upon the governing board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), headquartered in Atlanta, participated in a lunch counter boycott at Rich's department store, a well-known Atlanta commercial establishment, and supported black Atlanta union members in a strike. King's best known and most effective civil protests occurred outside Atlanta, particularly in Alabama, where blacks wielded little economic, social, or political power.\n\nNevertheless, the black commercial and residential district centered around Auburn Avenue and the prominent black religious institutions in the community had a lasting impact on King and other black community leaders. Throughout the South, civil rights activities relied on strong communities and outspoken religious leaders. Auburn Avenue and its surrounding black residential areas developed as a direct result of segregationist policies common throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century Southern urban centers. Within this milieu of hardship, black economic, cultural, and political institutions waxed, and in some cases, flourished. Auburn Avenue's vitality surpassed that achieved by many southern black communities. This unique community greatly influenced the life path chosen by King, to challenge racism, poverty, and the denial of black civil rights.\n\nAuburn Avenue and its coterminous residential community developed as a stronghold of black Atlanta politics, commerce, spirituality, and Social life. Sweet Auburn described the corridor east of Peachtree to Howell Avenue and north of Auburn to Houston Street. Edgewood Avenue, located just south of Auburn Avenue, developed later predominantly as a white commercial corridor. On both avenues, access to the central business district to the west via
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League of Struggle for Negro Rights\n\nNAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
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Martin Luther King Jr., also protested for many African Americans to have the right to vote in certain southern states like Alabamba, Missississippi, Louisiana, etc. \nCheck out this source to find more information for your report.
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It started shortly after the civil war in one of the southern states that was opposed to blacks getting their freedoms. It was started by a bunch of Bigots who thought they were doing good by getting rid of freemen.
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"The day history books changed forever was when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, December 1, 1955, the day most historians consider the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States. The brave, quiet woman, known as "quiet strength," was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America and made her an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere. Rosa was 42 when she refused to give up her seat and the bus boycott began."
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The first instance of it was in 1866 appearing under the umbrella of civil rights laws.   \n  \nOriginally, civil rights programs were enacted to help African Americans become full citizens of the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal; the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law; the Fifteenth Amendment forbids racial discrimination in access to voting. The 1866 Civil Rights Act guarantees every citizen "the same right to make and enforce contracts ... as is enjoyed by white citizens ... " \n\nIn 1896, the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld a "separate, but equal" doctrine that proved to be anything but equal for African Americans. The decision marked the end of the post-Civil War reconstruction era as Jim Crow laws spread across the South. \n\nIn 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 which outlawed segregationist hiring policies by defense-related industries which held federal contracts. Roosevelt's signing of this order was a direct result of efforts by Black trade union leader, A. Philip Randolph. \n\nDuring 1953 President Harry S. Truman's Committee on Government Contract Compliance urged the Bureau of Employment Security "to act positively and affirmatively to implement the policy of nondiscrimination . . . ." \n\nThe 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. The actual phrase "affirmative action" was first used in President Lyndon Johnson's 1965 Executive Order 11246 which requires federal contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin." \n\nIn 1967, Johnson expanded the Executive Order to include affirmative action requirements to benefit women. \nOther equal protection laws passed to make discrimination illegal were the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title II and VII of which forbid racial discrimination in "public accommodations" and race and sex discrimination in employment, respectively; and the 1965 Voting Rights Act adopted after Congress found "that racial discrimination in voting was an insidious and pervasive evil which had been perpetuated in certain parts of the country through unremitting and ingenious defiance of the Constitution." \n\nMuch of the opposition to affirmative action is framed on the grounds of so-called "reverse discrimination and unwarranted preferences." In fact, less than 2 percent of the 91,000 employment discrimination cases pending before the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission are reverse discrimination cases. Under the law as written in Executive Orders and interpreted by the courts, anyone benefitting from affirmative action must have relevant and valid job or educational qualifications.
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The 60's saw the height of Nation of Islam headed by Elijah Muhammad and the Civil Rights Movement. These movements shared the vision of freedom and equality but Elijah wanted total separatism for blacks. This goal defeated the purpose of the Civil Rights movement. \n\nPlease see the links below for a time line and details on the Nation of Islam in connection with Elijah Muhammed.\n\nYou can't have war without peace.
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I Have a Dream\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm\n\nVoices for Freedom\n\nThe Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and 1970's has produced some the most passionate and moving speeches in American History. The list below will give you a good insight into how Activists got their messages out, and what they were fighting for. \nhttp://www.albany.edu/dept/sisp/jjpowers/WebCollabS05/civilrights/products.html\n\nhttp://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/king.html\n\n\nThe Civil Rights Movement (1954-1969)\n\nhttp://www.uwm.edu/~jnelsen/ushist/contents.html\n\nMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WEBSITES\n\nA comprehensive site with lots of links.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Martin_Luther_King.htm\n\nMartin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968)\n\nhttp://www.thekingcenter.org/\n\nhttp://www.extension.umn.edu/units/diversity/mlk/mlk.html\n\nhttp://who2.com/martinlutherkingjr.html\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/king_martin_luther.shtml\n\nA Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\nHistory is indeed made up of significant events which shape our future and outstanding leaders who influence our destiny.\n\nhttp://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/mlking.htm\n\nhttp://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/aaslvwww.htm\n\nMartin Luther King © \n\nKing was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was pastor of a Baptist church, his mother a schoolteacher. Originally named Michael, he was renamed Martin when he was about six years old. \n\nHe entered Morehouse College in 1944, and here he met Dr Benjamin Mays, a scholar who encouraged him to enter the ministry. After graduating in 1948, King went to Crozer Religious Seminary to undertake post-graduate study. He received his doctorate in 1955.\n\nhttp://www.stanford.edu/group/King/\n\nMartin Luther King, Jr.: A Biographical Sketch\n\nhttp://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html\n\nA Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\nHistory is indeed made up of significant events which shape our future and outstanding leaders who influence our destiny. \n\nhttp://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm\n\nIntroduction:\n\nThe following lesson encourages students to reflect on nonviolence as an instrument to change unjust laws by studying the Birmingham Campaign of 1963. \n\nhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/index.html\n\nDr. Martin Luther King Jr. establishes himself as the national leader of the civil rights movement, leading boycotts and staging protests against segregation in the South.\n\nhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/photogallery.html\n\nGood luck\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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The whole bus boycott started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.  Then the civil rights movement started with Martin Luther King Jr. and his "I Have a Dream" speech.  I don't know if this is the kind of information you're looking for, but the bus boycott may have been the beginning of the civil rights movement.
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2 Terms... or 8 years...8 very long, long years.\n\nI think it was the 21st ammendment, but I'm not 100% sure.