The civil rights movement was a decades-long struggle for racial equality in the United States that began in the 1950s and continued into the late 1960s. It sought to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and other minority groups. The movement was led by prominent civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and John Lewis. It also included a variety of organizations, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Student Non