The report of this committee published in 1947 was called ‘To Secure These Rights’. It called for many drastic changes to be made to the law e.g. to secure black voting rights, to pass anti-lynching legislation and to end a range of segregated facilities. Limited action was taken in the areas identified, but this report did put Civil Rights on the political agenda. He also prevented the Federal Housing Administration from lending money to building projects which resulted in segregated housing.
President John F. Kennedy helped this change by making the Civil Rights Act of 1964. During President John F. Kennedy’s time in office, he promised to end racial discrimination. He put a lot of Blacks in federal positions, no other president had done that in the past. He gave hope to Black Americans that more important jobs will come to Blacks.
Liberal, not conservative, Johnson wanted to "fight the war against poverty" by petitioning for the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (DOC A). Avoiding dealing directly with the violence and oppression stemming that was being inflicted on African Americans, stemming from the civil rights controversy was the first real issue, just one year later, in 1965(DOC C). In this source, Dr. Herberg uses logos to say that without order in society, there can be no justice, and that the civil rights movement takes the order out of society and create that injustice themselves. Making huge leaps and creating laws and acts that could be controversial could lead a country to its demise without majority
for the people, shall not perish from the earth" Lincoln's call for a "new birth of freedom" was realized in the form of the three crucial constitutional amendments: the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of due process and equal protection, and the Fifteenth Amendment's guarantee of the right to vote. Abraham Lincoln was committed to ending slavery as well as preserving the Union. In his first year in office, President Abraham Lincoln had stubbornly rejected the idea of abolishing slavery. But by 1862 he recognized that the best path to preserving the Union was by freeing the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation played a central role in achieving this goal.
According to Bowles, 2012, slavery began the civil war which led to further violence which in turn led to segregation. But just because this was the end of slavery, does not mean that the military leaders nor politicians can change the ingrained cultural beliefs of a people. The country was split between the North and the South; Northern white and in the Southern Blacks. African-Americans such as Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and even more recent Barrack Obama have made significant steps to improve and even stop segregation. According to Bowles, 2011, American History 1865 to present End of Isolation, The Black Codes codified some of these feelings into law when in 1865 southern state governments created legislation that restricted and controlled the lives of the ex-slaves.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also bars the judgment of people based on their race, color or national origin. Thanks to the Fair Housing Act it is unlawful to deny housing, equal accommodations, or refuse to negotiate the selling of a home or property to someone based on skin color. Any person or entity found to be harassing someone that is in the process of making a legal complaint based on the Fair Housing Act will be punished for criminal activity ("Fair Housing Laws", 2012). In most cities there are local services available to those looking to become a home owner. The African American Alliance for Homeownership (AAAH) provides the people of Portland, Oregon, with guidance on how to approach the task of looking for and buying a home.
In DuBois essay “Oh Mr. Washington and others”, DuBois expressed his beliefs. DuBois believed that Washington asked blacks to give up political power, insistence on civil rights, and higher education for African Americans youth. He believed that Washington’s policies had directly or indirectly resulted in three trends: the disfranchisement of the African Americans, the legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the African Americans, and steady withdrawal of aid from institutions for the higher training of the African Americans. DuBois disputed that Washington accepted the alleged inferiority of African Americans. Expressing the feeling of the radical civil rights advocates, DuBois demanded for all black citizens 1) the right to vote, 2) civic equality, and 3) the education of African Americans youth according to ability.
Many proposed the end of racial segregation and the Jim Crow laws that limited their social rights like the Black Codes did. State laws that violated the 15th amendment, which promises that the right to vote cannot be denied on the basis of race, color or previous condition of servitude, were removed and the federal government response to the Ku Klux Klan’s violence were effective in diminishing he clan’s actions against African Americans. Better job opportunities were present up north, causing many to join the Great Migration to the northern states. The African American community continues to fight against racial segregation and discrimination to live a life of equal rights and
The civil rights movement developed in the period after 1945 because of the advancements the Second World War and important black activists had made in civil rights as it had led to a strong improvement in the status of black people as a whole. A main reason for the development of civil rights, I feel, was the influence of black activists at this time proving change was possible. Organisations such as CORE- The Congress of Racial Equality looked at economic boycotts and methods to gain attention as well as many sit-ins organised by James Farmer. For Example an important individual in black civil rights, Adam Clayton- Powell (who was the first man a of African American descent to be elected for congress) ran the Harlem bus boycott in 1941 which in consequence led to an uptake of 200 black workers. This protests success could also have been some of the inspiration behind the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955.
Malcolm X resolution for racial injustice for African Americans was to separate the white man from the black man. I believe if Malcolm’s way of solving the problem was more pushed into issue the world wouldn’t be how it is