Civil Rights Movement (Pre and Post Periods)
Civil Rights Movements
The Civil Rights Movement refers to the movement in the U.S. which aimed to fight racial discrimination against African Americans. From the abolition of slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution passed by the Senate on April 8th, 1864, to the Niagara Movement founded in 1905 by a group led by W.E.B Du Bois, the first part of this paper draws the background and key events of the pre-Civil Rights Movement period. Then, the second part will address a deep analysis of the Civil Rights Movement and the period after that. We will see all along this paper that often the Federal and State power confronted each others. The Southern States were the most affected by the rebellions and the Civil Rights Movement. Fred Douglas, who supported the end of slavery, played also a significant role in the pre-Civil period. From 1900s, Black equality movements started to flourish. Booker T. Washington, one of the leaders of those movements, was for the acceptation of Black segregation, where as W.E.B Du Bois and his Niagara Movement strongly opposed to this nonviolent strategy. In the mid-20th, we also see the emergence of leaders such as Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.
The pre-Civil Rights Movement draws the gap between the end of Civil War (1865) and the beginning oh the Civil Rights Movement. The period is marked by the turbulent years between the Emancipation Act (January 31, 1863) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 guarantying the rights of full-fledged citizenship to Black Americans. In 1865, the Thirteen Amendment passed by the Senate aimed to abolish the most notorious example of inhumanity in the world history: slavery. Abolition of slavery did not change the perceptions that allowed discrimination to continue over generations. Two years before, the Emancipation Act of 1863, issued by the President Lincoln which officially ended slavery, could not immediately change people’s mores or the legacy of the U.S. since it had
The Civil Rights Movement refers to the movement in the U.S. which aimed to fight racial discrimination against African Americans. From the abolition of slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution passed by the Senate on April 8th, 1864, to the Niagara Movement founded in 1905 by a group led by W.E.B Du Bois, the first part of this paper draws the background and key events of the pre-Civil Rights Movement period. Then, the second part will address a deep analysis of the Civil Rights Movement and the period after that. We will see all along this paper that often the Federal and State power confronted each others. The Southern States were the most affected by the rebellions and the Civil Rights Movement. Fred Douglas, who supported the end of slavery, played also a significant role in the pre-Civil period. From 1900s, Black equality movements started to flourish. Booker T. Washington, one of the leaders of those movements, was for the acceptation of Black segregation, where as W.E.B Du Bois and his Niagara Movement strongly opposed to this nonviolent strategy. In the mid-20th, we also see the emergence of leaders such as Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.
The pre-Civil Rights Movement draws the gap between the end of Civil War (1865) and the beginning oh the Civil Rights Movement. The period is marked by the turbulent years between the Emancipation Act (January 31, 1863) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 guarantying the rights of full-fledged citizenship to Black Americans. In 1865, the Thirteen Amendment passed by the Senate aimed to abolish the most notorious example of inhumanity in the world history: slavery. Abolition of slavery did not change the perceptions that allowed discrimination to continue over generations. Two years before, the Emancipation Act of 1863, issued by the President Lincoln which officially ended slavery, could not immediately change people’s mores or the legacy of the U.S. since it had