The civil rights movement was started due to racial segregation and a fight for equal rights. The civil rights movement lasted from 1954 to 1965. It ended when the president signed the Civil Rights Act and also signed the voting rights laws. The Voting Rights Act was passed when black people could not vote. Organizations involved in the civil rights movement were the NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, and MIA. Martin Luther King played an important role in the civil rights movement because he helped defeat segregation even though he used nonviolence to demonstrate what he was doing. Malcolm X did not resort to violence unless necessary, so Martin Luther King and Malcolm X had different views. The civil rights movement only lasted a year, but it helped black people and ended segregation, which was very important because it was one step closer to ending racism. The main people who started the civil rights movement were Emmit Till, the Brown vs. Board and Rosa Parks. What I am trying to prove is that Emmit Till started and/or ignited the civil rights movement. Life before the civil rights movement was normal. Edgar Martin says he enjoys watching movies but was limited to sitting on the balcony. Martin never took the bus, so when he walked to school the white kids would stand there and cuss him out. Black people never got new textbooks, they were old books that came from down the street or from Mcintosh. Edgar Martin saw chain gangs working outside his house, all the guards were white. Brown vs. Board was a fight for educational equality. The Supreme Court has been involved in these cases. The NAACP was involved in the Brown v Board cases. The case was made for equitable education because blacks were only allowed to receive an education until they reached a certain level in the civil rights movement. If she had never sat in front of buses, buses would not be desegregated and we would still be fighting for equal rights on buses. It didn't really start the civil rights movement because it was only a minor role during the civil rights movement. The event that sparked the civil rights movement was the murder. The three reasons why Emmett to Death played a monumental role in the civil rights movement are that death was a never-ending crime for black people, discrimination, and black people wanted to end violence through protests peaceful. Emmitt's death sparked the civil rights movement because his death was based on discrimination against black people because he was killed for allegedly flirting with a white woman. This is one of the main reasons why Emmitt Till was killed because of discrimination. Black people wanted to end the violence because