Barriers To The Civil Rights Movement

The story of African-Americans throughout the history of America has been the story of the struggle for human rights. This group of people have been forced to fight for freedom from slavery, freedom of the right to vote and freedom to exist as equals with white Americans. African-Americans struggled for human rights in the USA from 1945-1970 and were forced to fight for equality using two main strategies, of which the most successful was non-violent non-cooperation. Nevertheless, despite the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 and acts accomplished by 1970, there were still rights to be tended to later in the future. Therefore, it is essential to examine the types of strategies used to gain equality especially Martin Luther King, how successful
Yet, it gained more than the civil rights by 1970. According to the Civil Rights: Timeline of Events (n.d), the rights passed includes the acts accomplished by 1970 were: equal pay Act (where employers pay all employees equal for equal work) in 1963, Voting Rights Act (restricts discriminating voting practices nationwide) in 1965, and the Inter-Racial Marriage in 1967. The passed laws/acts were tremendous advances towards the equity between African-Americans and the whites, yet other rights aiming at African-Americans were still needed to be gained (“Jim Crow Laws”,
African-Americans were still denied from rights, for example, Equal Rights Amendment that proposed to explicitly ensure equity to all individuals, paying little heed to sexual orientation when it went in Congress, 1971 ("Civil Rights: Timeline of Events", n.d). Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (Affirmative Action) and Pregnancy Discrimination Act (prohibits employment discrimination against female pregnant workers) that are signed or passed in 1978. Moreover, Disability Act in 1990 that secure individuals with incapacities, Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993 and the privileges of being same-sex couples in 2003 were all passed into the Congress. The rights that were denied from the African-Americans in the past were later tended to and marked to law later on as in after