Civil rights can be defined as the right of individuals to equality. This equality includes the right to equal employment, justice, the right to be free from mistreatment and discrimination from white people in various ways. These rights include education, voting, employment, same-sex marriages, housing and more. Civil rights include the rights of gays and lesbians, the right of women to vote and to hold office, and the rights of African Americans and Hispanics. Historically, the civil rights movement consisted of struggles, protests, and demonstrations, all in a nonviolent form, led by African Americans to achieve equality among whites. Today, civil rights can be used to describe the call for equality for all, regardless of culture, race, gender, age, disability, national origin, religion, or certain other characteristics. Likewise, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and Apartheid in the United States Africa have been marked in history as two major events and/or activities that forever altered the lives of African Americans in the whole world. Both events had a huge impact on the daily lives of black people in Africa as well as African Americans in the United States, in one way or another. In both movements, African Americans fought for what they believed in, they fought for equal rights and to end racial segregation, to name just a few of the major issues. The two share many similarities and differences. However, it seems they share more similarities than differences. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Evidence of injustice: The brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a young Chicago teenager in 1955, can also be considered an act...... middle of paper ...... on the other hand , apartheid began with the election of the Afrikaner National Party. (ANP). The ANP wanted to divide Africa into races separate from each other, so that there would be white, black and colored nations. This segregation of colored nations from white nations quickly led to black people being deprived of everything they owned, such as land and their citizenship. These two civil rights movements had differences but were also similar in that they were largely nonviolent, they both led boycotts, they fought for white oppression, they fought for inequality, and they faced discrimination issues, and they used a lesser form. of violence in their fight for racial segregation. Both civil rights movements were non-violent and forced Africans and African Americans to come together and act as one in order to achieve equality as a whole..