Civil Rights Movement Essay Examples

Civil disobedience is the act of protesting without inciting violence. There are many examples of such things throughout history just like the Civil Rights Movement during the 10960’s as showcased through movies and media like Selma and there are some examples going on today. Such as the The Poor People’s Campaign that is going on to this day. I’m going to be comparing and contrasting the two examples, discussing the kind of people that took place in each instance, what its about and the leaders that orchestrated the event. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement, the Poor People’s Campaign is not discriminate, for the most part a single race. In some cases there was non-blacks supporting the Movement, but anybody on this earth can be poor. Most of the people who are protesting in this campaign are homeless and have been through hard times making money, which was one of the many problems people of color had back in the 1960’s, although the problem of not having money has more consequences today, as the cost of a decent living has gone up drastically. Also this campaign has a deeper connection to Civil Rights than
meets the eye and it has to do with MLK himself. The time between the end of the Civil Rights Movement and the time Martin Luther King was assassinated he started to work towards a new goal coined by the president at the time Lyndon B.
Johnson. He wanted to start a “War on Poverty” and MLK was going to move on to this movement before he sadly go assassinated. If he wasn’t assassinated we probably wouldn’t be facing this problem today. Shortly after the end of The Civil Rights Movement LBJ’s term ended and he didn’t run for re-election due to his notoriety with his efforts on the Vietnam War. So LBJ’s plan to end poverty slowly died out and was forgotten, until it resurfaced recently due to the amount of people still out on the streets. In my opinion this is a equally important to the Civil Rights Movement, both focused on ending the suffering of a group of people, but both very different groups of
people. The leaders of these movements are both blacks males, of course MLK for the Civil Rights Movement and William Barber for the Poor People’s Campaign. They both rally all kinds of people to there campaigns. MLK even got some whites and people of other races to join his Movement. The Poor People’s campaign has people from all walks of life supporting it, even people that are rich. These guys just have a way of convincing people to join their cause. Barber’s inspiration was actually MLK as well and he’s trying to revive the movement he was going to start so long ago. In conclusion there movements have a lot of similarities but at the same time many differneces. They have similiar leaders that pull different kinds of poeple to there cause, and the movements have very different purposes.