Civil Rights Movement

Historically, Blacks were discriminated against since they were kidnapped and brought to America from Africa. In the 1960's, the Civil Rights Movement emerged to advance the rank of Blacks in America and to give them the chance to become first class citizens, like Whites. With the help of Civil Rights leaders like Charles Hamilton Houston, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, Blacks gained a status similar to their White counterparts. They had created a social change. According to lecture, change in societies is inevitable and can be experienced as anomic.  Though change may take on the same characteristics as other social change movements, the depth and velocity of the change differs.