Today we continued our look at the 1960s and focused on the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s represents a pivotal period in the fight against segregation and Jim Crow laws in America. Civil rights leaders and organizations led important protest and political actions that would eventually lead to major changes and protections against discrimination in America. Laws passed during the period made major steps to protections against discrimination in housing, employment, and hiring, and in expressing the right to vote. This progress was made on the backs of activists and marchers who were viciously attacked in non-violent protest and marches, particularly in the South. Reacting to public perception following the broadcast of incidents in the South and the violence of Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalist attacks, many laws were enacted that would go on to end the period of separate but equal and work instead toward a more equitable America.