One way African Americans were denied rights is by not being able to sit in the same section of the bus as White people. For example, Rosa Parks tried to sit on the White section of the bus, which resulted in her getting arrested for doing so. This is important because it shows how African Americans were treated unequally. One method people used to try to solve this was by boycotting. For example, after the Rosa Parks
All of these Supreme Court rulings show de jure change in favour of blacks and improving the status of African Americans. But it wasn’t just the Supreme Court, as the Federal Government were involved too. Although the Civil Rights 1960 can be regarded as a failure, Congress still passed significant acts that changed the status of blacks and it was in positive ways too. Under President Johnson’s idea of a ‘great society’, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, outlawing segregation in public places and thereby changing the status of African Americans. The Voting Rights Act 1965 was a significant law that changed the status of blacks.
INTRODUCTION: Before 1945, the white attitude to blacks was very different to how it is today. A lot needed changing, and it took a large amount of protests and court cases to do so. For example, blacks had no say in elections, and this was enforced with the grandfather clause (where they had to prove that men of two generations before them had been eligible to vote, which they couldn’t) or the literacy clause (where they had to prove they could read and write, which most of them couldn’t). Discrimination in education and employment had led to social deprivation, and many blacks in the North were living in ghettos. PUBLIC OPINION: During the war, black Americans did not approve of the slogan of the war that focused on equality and liberty, as to them it seemed hypocritical, because all they received was discrimination.
Close your eyes and imagine Martin Luther King Jr. returning to the United States. If this were possible to happen, he would have a lot of thoughts running through his head. He would feel accomplished and I think he would know that he made a difference in the world today. He also would feel that he made many impacts in our world such as, segregation, the equal opportunities of African Americans and he would be very surprised to see Barack Obama a man of the African American race our new president of the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. made such a great impact on segregation.
The black people believed that President Kennedy was feeling bad for the civil rights movement more than his opponent, Richard Nixon. The Freedom Riders was that an interracial group would board buses destined for the South. The white people sit at the back and the blacks at the front. When it was mother’s day on May 14, the Freedom Riders split up into two groups to travel through Alabama. The first groups met up with about 200 angry Mob in Anniston.
Kennedy, the strategy was to integrate blacks and whites in the buses in the South. James Farmer the CORE director was in the right path assuming that the racists of the South will give the opportunity to the Federal government to enforce the law. Starting from their first incident since their departure from Washington DC on May 4, 1961, the riders had an idea of what it was waiting for them but the events that took place with these people is beyond the imaginable; bombings, beatings and what is more grotesque than the hate of the whites against the blacks in the South was the leader authorities that pretended ignorance of the events that were taking place in their cities. The suffering of these victims was not in vain, although they did not finish the trip but because of their sacrifice, the segregation in interstate bus travel was outlawed by Robert
During the era of Grand Expectations people like Rosa Parks come to mind. At the time, city regulation stated that African Americans had to give up their seats on trains or busses if any white man asked for them. Most notable for refusing to give up her seat and not moving to the back of the bus, Rosa Parks “was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation… and thus formally challenged the legality of segregation” (The Henry Ford, 2002). Initiations of boycotts of the bus systems began, and in Montgomery, where Rosa Parks ride took place, African Americans made up about 75 percent of the riders, thus showing an economic threat to the company and the white rule of the city (The Henry Ford, 2002). Above all, you can’t forget the impact, hard work, leadership and courageous acts of Martin Luther King, Jr. Like Rosa Parks, he became an iconic person of this era who with peaceful protests and encouraging words became a notable leader in the fight for equal rights.
Sadly, this is the best news the nation heard in days following the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a religious leader and civil rights activist who led the civil right movement in the 1950s. His actions led to the success of legal segregation of African Americans in the south, especially. Dr. King fronted a host of demonstrations to include the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. The objective was to contest segregation on the public bus system. The Civil Rights activists believed there was a need after Rosa Parks, an African American woman decided not to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus, which ultimately led to her arrest.
The next big historical event that affected Huffman Trucking like many businesses in the 1950s was the fact that the company’s were limited to hire primarily white employees. Many states at this point in history still had segregation in affect and this would have an impact on Huffman Trucking if they were to have an African American driving for them into the Southern States. In 1964 the world changed when the U.S. Civil Rights Act was signed. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 opened the door for African Americans to gain employment in a world that was primarily white. It was no longer an issue to worry about discrimination because the Act no longer tolerated discrimination in public places.
One of the most notable and great contributors to the Civil Rights Movement was the Freedom Riders. The freedom riders were civil rights activists who ride interstate buses in the segregated south to challenge local laws and or customs that enforced segregation. However, the most notable figure in the liberation of African American racism is Martin Luther King JR. Martin Luther King used nonviolent methods and teachings of Mahatma Ghandi to fight for justice for African Americans. One of his nonviolent actions that had a tremendous effect fighting segregation in the south was the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, of which an African American lady Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and she was arrested. King leads this boycott for 385 days to the point that he got arrested and his house got bombed, but led to Browder vs. Gayle which ended racial segregation in all Montgomery public buses.