Civil Rights Movement: Attitudes Of African American Citizens

The Civil Rights Movement was the main reason that transformed the attitudes of the majority of American citizens. It realise that all Americans were entitled to pursue the American dream. Blacks didn't have legal equality and many women didn't work outside of their home. Most people obeyed and trusted the government. By the early 1970s, none of it was true anymore. By the late 1960s, African Americans had to live under a system of segregation. They were to stay away from the white like the suburbs, schools, shops, restaurants, jobs and white seats on busses. After the early 1970s, blacks were allowed to go anywhere and do anything.

Civil and political rights are to protect individuals' freedom from violation from the governments, social
Africans Americans were trying to have the same equal rights as the Whites which included employment, housing, and education. Also the rights to vote, equal rights to the public, and to be free of racial discrimination. This movement seek was to restore the rights of citizenship to the 14th and 15th Amendments, which had been destroyed by Jim Crow Laws in the South (pg. 133). It basically transforms relations among the federal government and the states. The federal government was forced to enforce its laws and to protect the rights of African American citizens. In addition, Martin Luther King Jr, Cesar Chavez and other leaders of the movement, the movement prompted gains. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was passed granting equal protection of the laws and in 1870, 15th Amendment giving the right to vote to all males regardless of race, and troops from the North occupied the South to enforce the abolition of slavery from 1865 to 1877. In 1877, whites again gained control of the South and passed a variety of laws that discriminated on the black race called Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crows laws apply that whites and black were to use separate education, housing, and public places such as restaurants, trains, and restrooms (pg.
The struggle of the Mexican American civil rights movement was that Caesar Chavez carried on of the fields of California to organize migrant farm workers. Mexican Americans called it the Chicano Movement. (pg. 144) The term "Chicano" was used as a derogatory label for the children of Mexican migrants. (pg.143) It proudly claiming the term as a symbol of ethnic pride. The Latino activists wanted recognition of rights for Mexican Americans. Such as repair of land grants, farm workers' rights, education, voting and political rights. It confronted negative ethnic stereotypes of