The struggle for the rights of black citizens in the USA

The decade of the 50s in the USA was pivotal in the struggle of groups brought together to end the racial segregation suffered by the Afro-American population and to demand the guarantee of their civil rights. Black community movements intensified from 1955, when Rosa Parks, a black woman, decided to sit for the first time in a bus reserved for white people.

Protests followed one another in different states to the response of brutal repression by white extremist groups, mainly in the state of Mississippi. But the black population continued to fight, and one of its decisive moments was the March on Washington where, before a gathering of 250,000 black people, Martin Luther King made his famous speech: “I have a dream”.