The Civil Rights Movement in the USA in the 1950’s and 1960’s Civil Rights Movement: A program of protest and civil disobedience undertaken by African Americans to overcome racist policies that denied them of civil rights. Segregation in the USA in the 1950’s * Gained there emancipation in 1865 but still faced discrimination in every aspect of their lives. * A systematic segregation was improved which separated African American’s from white American’s. This included : * African Americans being forced to use separate entrances, separated in theatres, buses, swimming pools, hospitals, schools and even cemeteries. * These facilities were inadequate.
The Civil Rights laws were the main changes to help the process along. It started with the freeing of the African Americans from slavery. After which the Civil Rights laws took over to break the hold of the laws keeping African Americans down. From 1965 and on there were laws which have helped to make the African American plight more bearable. From the desegregation of the schools to voting rights to the right to have equal pay and work.
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Right Acts of 1965 guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, after a decade of non-violent protests and marches. Throughout the novel, there were many different means of non-violent protests. The black community were taking a different approach to the racism unlike the white people who were very violent and abusive. The black people wanted to be free from the segregation and would do anything to escape it, if they had of fought back matters may have been made worse and their lives would have been made even more unbearable. One of the forms of non-violent protests was Boycotts.
It was the events and the attention they brought, as well as other politically based protests such as the Children’s Crusades that resulted in the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. Although the bill marked progress in the movement, it was far from over, with the events of Bloody Sunday a year later showing how entrenched in racism society was. Protestors have always used different methods to help their issues, and the civil rights protestors of the 1960s were no different. The African American community turned to both tested and new protest methods to bring about civil rights at that time. The events that took place because of this are what allowed the Civil Rights Movement to advance, and are, therefore, the reason why there is a far greater level of equality amongst races in America
A fundamental vision held by volunteers of these organizations was the widespread belief that through awareness and working with the community to further develop Black Americans access to education and the political process, social equality in the south could be achieved, a grassroots movement aimed at tackling the issue of institutionalized prejudice in the south was concentrated heavily in the state of Mississippi where in 1963, students from Yale and Stanford faced a non stop barrage of direct opposition to their efforts that summer to distribute voting registration forms. Beyond the efforts by these regional municipalities to exclude Black Americans from the voting process by means of institutionalized prejudice lay n underlying threat of physical violence perpetrated by individuals who were bent on facilitating discriminatory practices against Black Americans.
His philosophy was non-violence, so that when the police, spat on, and beat the marchers, even killed several, his response was not to respond in kind. He fought against the top men in the country; he made it possible for colored men and women to have rights. He is a role model for adults and kids. Abraham Lincoln is also very courageous. One of the greatest things he’s ever done was that e freed the slaves.
Malcolm X advocated frequently for blacks who were unjustly treated by legal and social authority. He showed people that black people could be articulate, and highly intellectual. He advocated for black men to rise up and give the same reaction they received from the white power structure and not accept the status quo of racism and discrimination. It is because of Malcolm's views of social justice and revolutionary actions, that gave rise to the most influential and revolutionary groups in America today. People just could not believe how someone could take the life of someone of such great
The Road to Civil Rights Jene’ Patterson HIS204: American History Since 1865 Lisa Burgin January 20, 2012 Over decades African Americans fought to attain equality and civil rights. With a given history of being segregated from other races, discriminated against because of their race, and being isolated, African Americans have indeed made many efforts in establishing equality and gaining civil rights. This paper will discuss the efforts made by African Americans to end segregation, discrimination, and isolation to attain equal and civil rights. The fight for equality and civil rights for the African American race is one that has taken place over many decades. African American’s endured segregation and discrimination in different forms
The March on Washington was for African American freedom and jobs. King had a dream that one day this nation would treat all Americans equal. King had a passion for equal rights for African Americans because he was tired of the way that were being treated. King's nonviolence protest made the government upset. "And we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead, we cannot turn back.
The segregation was one more way for the whites to control the African Americans. In 1909, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) commenced what has become its legacy of fighting legal battles to win social justice for African-Americans and indeed, for all Americans (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , 2012). Many changes were on the horizon for the African Americans and it started in 1948 when President Harry Truman declared an end to segregation in the U.S. military (Macionis, 2012). The NAACP aided in the fight to desegregate schools and may other legal battles to give the African Americans the same rights as the White Americans. In 1954 the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas) was trying to prove that the claim that black and white children could be taught in “separate but equal’ schools (Macionis, 2012).