Honors Chapters 21 The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968) ( Civil Rights: The rights of personal liberty, guaranteed to U.S. citizens by the 13 th , 14 th , and 15 th Amendments and by acts of Congress.) I. The Fight Begins: Taking on Segregation (p. 696 – 699; 705 – 706) A. Segregation - 1. Civil Rights Act of 1875; unconstitutional in 1883 2. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - a. 14 th Amendment - b. Jim Crow laws -