Civil rights activists organized in response to the supreme court decision boynton v. virginia , which outlawed racial segregation on interstate public transportation.

The started of civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-In1950 to late 1960 to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, and the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of racial discrimination.