The Civil Rights movement consisted of African-Americans who wanted to abolish racial segregation and in the 1950s to the 1960s is where the Civil Rights Movement changed the course of history. Reaching the goal of equality was not an easy one, it wasn’t all peaceful protests and demonstrations, there were a lot of deaths and injuries, most notably the assassinations of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 is when the Civil Rights Movement reached its peak, when Kennedy proposed the Civil Rights Act 250.000 African Americans went to Washington to support it. The Civil Rights Act was eventually signed on July 2nd 1964 but that didn’t stop racism, it still existed and it still exists today, just to a lesser degree.