The Civil Rights Movement in America was a prolonged and non-violent struggle, to extend the full access to civil rights and equality before the law to the groups such as African American citizens that do not have the access before. There have been numerous movements for different groups in America, but the term is generally used to refer to the efforts to end discrimination against African Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the southern United States that took place between the years 1955 and 1968 (Kasher, 2000).