However, this is not the end. On February 1, 1960 in north Carolina, four black college students went into a restaurant where only white people were allowed. Not until they had sat down, were they ordered to leave at once by a white waiter, whereas the four black college students sat still composedly.
This heroic immediately get responses from the southern black students and quickly developed into a large-scale sit-in movement, thus forcing nearly 200 city restaurants desegregating the apartheid system. Then, in May 1961, the congress of the racial equality launched a campaign called free passenger movement, fortunately, with the help of the students from the nonviolent coordination committee, the campaign gained support of many white people and gradually proceeded into a national movement, which impelling some southern states to abrogate the interstate bus ride segregation system.. In March 1963, Birmingham events broke out，Martin Luther King organized a demonstration in Birmingham where segregation seriously existed and succeeded in repealing the segregation system. Since then, the team of civil rights movements multiplied.
It came to a peak when Dr King delivered his famous speech “I have a dream” on the square in front of the Lincoln Memorial where 25,000 people gathered in August 1963. The gathering generated great pressure from the public which forced the congress passing the Civil Rights Act,
declaring the illegality of racial segregation and discrimination. This event then assumed as the most critical issue throughout the history of the American Civil Rights Movement and Dr King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Meanwhile, the great success of the Civil Rights Movement also inspired a new-era democracy and freedom movements such as the modern women's movement, the anti-war movement as well as the new left movement of the American and therefore propelled the development of American society.