Civil+Rights+.

There was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Sit-Ins, The Freedom Riders, Birmingham and The March of Washington. The civil rights movement was at its peak in 1955-1965. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965, which guaranteed basic civil rights for all Americans, no matter what race. After almost ten years of nonviolent protests and marches of the 1960's.