The Beginnings of The Civil Rights Movement

While most people associate the Civil Rights Movement with the 1950’s and 60’s,in actuality, people have been fighting for Civil Rights since the birth of our nation. People such as the Conductors on the Underground Railroad and abolitionists worked to free slaves – freedom is the most basic Civil Right and women like Sojourner Truth (left) and Harriet Tubman (right) worked right along side men to secure it for their people. In this website I will introduce you to eight women who work for Civil Rights during the 20th century. Four of these women will be from the National Movement and the other four will be from Western New York.

¨Everyone remembers to teach about Rosa Parks, who is often called the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.“But there were women, beforeand after Ms Parks who fought for Civil Rights. In this website I want to introduce you to some of them. Mrs Parks live in Montgomergy Ala from 1913-2003 and while she made a difference and helped galvinize a generation, she was not the first to refuse to give her seat to a white person in Ala.

That person was Claudette Colvin, who was 15 at the time of her arrest for refusing to give up her seat. She was given probation for her actions, but because of several reasons her case was not selected as the test case against segregation...Ms Colvin agreed with that descion, and was actually a mentee of Rosa Parks in the NAACP's Youth Movement.