The African American Civil Rights Movement has been a long journey for African Americans nationwide. Success involved many people, hardships, and time to advance the African American community in America. The aim of the movement was to achieve their rights, end discrimination and racial segregation. During the beginning of the African American civil rights movement, African Americans still faced Jim Crow laws that separated them from whites. Under Jim Crow laws African Americans had different schools, bathrooms, trains, buses, and many other things that were separate from the white population. The case Plessy v. Ferguson went through the US Supreme Court and was revealed as a “separate but equal” legal policy (A Brief History of Jim Crow). African Americans continued to develop the African American movement to fight for their equality. The Fourteenth Amendment helped them fight for their equal rights by proving that they were not being treated with unconstitutional equality. The Fourteenth Amendment is for the equal protection of the law for all citizens born in the United States (Kelly). The African American civil rights movement was a fight to end discrimination, segregation, and equal rights for all African Americans. In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education declared that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. The court found that schools were separate but not equal (Black History Timeline). This lawsuit also demonstrated that other places of segregation were also unconstitutional under the law. That said, it dealt a severe blow to pro-Jim Crow laws. In the findings on unjust and unequal schools it was found difficult to enforce especially in......middle of paper......l. The hardships and courageous African Americans who fought for the civil rights of African Americans will forever be remembered as strong heroes who decided to change the future of African Americans. Works Cited “A Brief History of Jim Crow.” - Constitutional Rights Foundation. Np, 2014. Web. April 28, 2014. “Black History Timeline.” History.com A&E Television Networks, April 28, 2014. .Kelly, Martin "Summary of the 14th Amendment." Np, 2014. Web. 28 Apr. 2014. < http://americanhistory.about.com/od/usconstitution/a/14th-Amendment-Summary.htm> Taylor, Quintard “Chapter 5.” Readings in African American History. Boston, Mass.: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008. Page No.