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Although the civil rights movement ultimately succeeded, many lives were harmed in the process. Many young people who began their political activism during this time transferred their commitment to social justice to other causes, including protests against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and '70s.
The civil rights movement was the first of the 1960s-era social movements. This movement produced one of the most important American social activists of the 20th century, Martin Luther King, Jr. The civil rights movement, as a national force, took root in the 1950s but greatly expanded in power in the 1960s.he major protest movements began with the civil rights movement during the 1950s and early 1960s. The civil rights movement fought to end long-standing political, social, economic, and legal practices that discriminated against black Americans.