The Civil Rights Movement was so that the black Americans could gain full rights an achieve equality. Martin Luther King was one of the main men workin torward getting the rights . He was head of the Christian Leadership Conference. This was happening between the 1950 an 1960s their was also a number of important Civil Right activites that helped the movement to be noticed. Like leading marches to protest discrimination. Also the key Civil Rights Activites that were following the major legislation, supreme court cases and activites that accured during the Civil Rights Movement.