From the times of slavery, whites were always treated as superior to blacks. As time went on and slavery was abolished, blacks still weren't given equal rights. The 1950s saw the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. This was a movement for African Americans trying to receive equal rights. They wanted to be able to eat, shop, and use the same facilities as whites. They also wanted the right to vote and equal job opportunities. In 1960, in North Carolina, the Greensboro Sit-ins began and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was formed. The Carolina Theatre protests that began in 1961 eventually led to the theatre becoming desegregated. Throughout North Carolina and other states, there was the process of desegregating motels and restaurants, which was called Freedom Highways. What were the outcomes of these events? What caused them to happen? How did these events play a role in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? .
Many people consider the Civil Rights Movement to take place in the 1960s. There were events that happened before 1960 that led to the large movement of Civil Rights. This is called the Long Civil Rights Movement. You see events such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Anti-Lynching Campaign of the 1930s.1 This was a widespread event not only throughout North Carolina, but throughout the United States. The event was proven to be help by defeating "Supreme Court nominee John J. Parker for his white supremacist and anti-union views and then defeat senators who voted for confirmation, and a skillful effort to lobby Congress and the Roosevelt administration to pass a federal anti-lynching law."2 Southern senators succeeded in filibustering, but the bill was not passed.3 By 1938, the number of lynchings had decreased incredibly.4 .
Various African American groups worked to make sure African Americans in the workforce were given equal rights: "In the 1930s, the National Negro Congress brought blacks into the newly formed United Steel Workers, and the union paid attention to the particular demands of African Americans.
