Civil

In United States history, there were many movements to obtain social and political equalities. Many were seen to come but there were movements that couldn’t be predicted by the American public. The civil rights movement is the event that spearheaded the tumultuous decade of the 1960’s due to the unprecedented rising of blacks fighting for equality. The system of white racial supremacy covered economics, political and cultural problems. Blacks were judged as “not equals” or less than “man” so they earned lower wages at work if they could find work at all. Economically, the African American race was oppressed into poverty by the lack of jobs, lower wages, and the oppression they faced from their white citizens. Politically, blacks were strongly discouraged from voting with poll taxes, and unfair literacy tests. Blacks had trouble voting people into power that would help reform their communities because of the deterrents set up by the white population almost exclusively in the south. The black culture was suppressed in the south by being segregated from its white counterpart. Blacks in the south were not allowed to eat at lunch counters, sit in the same movie theater, or use the same restrooms. The civil rights movement had enormous gains in court. Brown v. Topeka Board of Education was seen as a second emancipation proclamation; The case determined that separate but equal caused harm to black children and that the schools/institutions the black children went to school at were not equal to the white schools. In 1963, Kennedy saw the paradox of American society when he was free of foreign policy. (Cuba) Kennedy said “We preach freedom around the world…, but are we to say to the world and much more importantly, to each other, this is a land of the free except for Negroes?” Kennedy attempt for legislation was ended on November 22, 1963 where he was assassinated. Lyndon Johnson was took Kennedy’s place. Johnson was a man with a New Deal view that the government had