African American Civil Rights Research Paper

African Americans have faced great difficulties in owning and having a voice and respect in the early years in the United States of America. For far too long, they have faced oppression by the whites. However, they no longer accepted the mistreatment and double standards they faced and took a stand and fought for they believed in. Even though African Americans did not have much rights as families, the fact that they stood up for themselves, to bring peace, honor, and freedom was enough so that they can start a new life and many new opportunities to start a whole new way of living.
What is a Civil right? Civil rights are a demand for certain types of people to earn their rights which was taken away from them by certain individuals or groups.
However, in the year 1956 the famous Martin Luther king alongside Rosa parks designed a Montgomery bus boycott event that was followed by many or almost all African Americans who were seeking freedom from such inequality in their state. A man named James Weldon created the well known phrase “The red summer”. He was a man who seriously had passion for fighting off segregation and racial discrimination. He was a man who also protested against the violence in the summer of 1919. The red summer was named because of the riots that were taking place in more than three cities in America. Many white people attacked the African Americans and in many cases, the retaliation was fought back by the often abused African Americans. "The riots had economically significant negative effects on blacks' income and employment. Further, those effects may have been larger in the long run - from 1960 to 1980 - than in the short run - from 1960 to 1970." (How the 1960’s Riots hurt African Americans,
His father was a Baptist and his mother was a school teacher. He was a very smart boy even at such a young age, even after he was expelled from school at five years old because of him being too young to be in first grade- it had not stopped him to receiving a college degree – he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in SA. Martin Luther king Jr stood for what he believed in and fought for it no matter the consequences. He led marches that voiced his voice as well as others to have a right to vote. “He led the black boycott (1955-56) of segregated city bus lines and in 1956 gained a major victory and prestige as a civil-rights leader when Montgomery buses began to operate on a desegregated basis.” (Martin Luther king Jr biography, 2007) During the bus boycott – the thousands of black people instead of taking buses started walking or created black taxis that would only be for African American people, it was a small car owning system. Because of this, revenue was lost greatly and the Supreme Court then brought integration on buses bringing an end to the