Civil Rights Movement: Michael Schwerner And Bloody Sunday

How would you feel if you were stripped of your rights, and treated as everything that is less than equal? That’s what the African-Americans went through, and what the Civil Rights movement was against. By asking for basic human rights, many men and women ended up dead or imprisoned, all because people had forced them into hard labor rather than treating them as equals. The point in which equality was achieved was due to many series of people and events, such as Michael Schwerner and Bloody Sunday. There were many goals for the Civil Rights Movement. Every act and movement had their own specific goal, but they all were just steps to getting what people ultimately wanted-equality. Ending segregation, gaining access to jobs and housing, reversing