The Civil Rights Movement grew out of a need to gain enfranchisement for African Americans. Between the years1954 and 1959, African American had it the worst out of all of the people who lived in the United States of America. Extreme racism and lynching was popular to the white people who dislike o...

The decision of President Dwight D. Eisenhower to send troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 was an important milestone in progress toward ending school segregation and racial discrimination against African Americans. The president's decisive action demonstrated that the dull force of the power o...