Video summary Dr. Holder gives a detailed talk on the emergence and development of the civil rights movements in the United States. The segregation and disfranchisement of the Blacks denied them an opportunity to exercise their democratic rights to vote. Black activists used different methods to oppose racial segregation in the country. Although the Civil Movement led to blacks’ emancipation, the legal, political, and religious factors played an instrumental rule in this achievement. Dr. Holder notes that the courts contributed to the Blacks’ systemic segregation and disfranchisement, which began around the 1890s. According to Dr. Holder, the Supreme Court used the Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896 to uphold racial segregation. The ruling legalized the policies that segregated Blacks from
