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Civil Rights Movement in America
Discrimination in America has never been condemned like today, but how did the country change from a place where discrimination was a part of every day’s life to a place where discrimination is not encouraged by many. Unfortunately, African Americans have been the ones who have suffered the most from discrimination mainly because of the type of their skin. The Civil Rights is the moment when African Americans could finally achieve what their forefathers had been promised a Century ago. To achieve these people had to sacrifice their lives, the sages were not wrong when they uttered the proverb no pain no gain.
There were many Civil Rights activists that challenged the injustice that had been happening to them. A good example is James Meredith, who was he first African American to go to an all-white college, and is a past victim to discrimination. This is seen when James Meredith says, “I have been denied my privileges all along, but these whites have not been.” (Doc # 2).This shows how African Americans in the 1960’s and before experienced injustice although the constitution written centuries before the Civil Rights movement interprets that in order for a perfect union justice should be established. (Doc #1) …show more content…
By this time of the country’s history, America was starting to change on some opinions about discrimination clearly noted by the ruling in the case of Rosa Parks and her violation of the ‘separate but equal’ law.
People like Martin Luther King played an important role in making sure that justice was served mainly in the south and encourage Blacks across America not to be satisfied as he famously said and I quote. “We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”(Doc # 3) The Statement above Just showed how much African Americans were willing to fight for equal
opportunity.
Southerners used brutality, like police dogs to quell civil unrest in Birmingham, Alabama. (Doc # 5) Not everyone was okay with the violence that was happening to African Americans in the south. The Federal government had to come up with an act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. (Doc # 6) Southern leaders like George Wallace and Ross Barnet went against the government to challenge the bills being proposed but at the end all their efforts went in vain.
As the days moved on, no major changes were seen until the President (J.F.K.) and other civil Rights leaders were assassinated because of the position he took on the Civil Rights movement as a result to these loses, African Americans achieved what there were fighting for years. To end with, though the Civil Rights Movement was achieved in many different forms like the violent way or the non-violent way they all led to the same goal, a good example is the voting rights of 1965 and not everyone was happy about the change but America took a step on a journey of a thousand miles to achieving a more perfect union and what a step it was.
Discrimination in America has never been condemned like today, but how did the country change from a place where discrimination was a part of every day’s life to a place where discrimination is not encouraged by many. Unfortunately, African Americans have been the ones who have suffered the most from discrimination mainly because of the type of their skin. The Civil Rights is the moment when African Americans could finally achieve what their forefathers had been promised a Century ago. To achieve these people had to sacrifice their lives, the sages were not wrong when they uttered the proverb no pain no gain.
There were many Civil Rights activists that challenged the injustice that had been happening to them. A good example is James Meredith, who was he first African American to go to an all-white college, and is a past victim to discrimination. This is seen when James Meredith says, “I have been denied my privileges all along, but these whites have not been.” (Doc # 2).This shows how African Americans in the 1960’s and before experienced injustice although the constitution written centuries before the Civil Rights movement interprets that in order for a perfect union justice should be established. (Doc #1) …show more content…
By this time of the country’s history, America was starting to change on some opinions about discrimination clearly noted by the ruling in the case of Rosa Parks and her violation of the ‘separate but equal’ law.
People like Martin Luther King played an important role in making sure that justice was served mainly in the south and encourage Blacks across America not to be satisfied as he famously said and I quote. “We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”(Doc # 3) The Statement above Just showed how much African Americans were willing to fight for equal
opportunity.
Southerners used brutality, like police dogs to quell civil unrest in Birmingham, Alabama. (Doc # 5) Not everyone was okay with the violence that was happening to African Americans in the south. The Federal government had to come up with an act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. (Doc # 6) Southern leaders like George Wallace and Ross Barnet went against the government to challenge the bills being proposed but at the end all their efforts went in vain.
As the days moved on, no major changes were seen until the President (J.F.K.) and other civil Rights leaders were assassinated because of the position he took on the Civil Rights movement as a result to these loses, African Americans achieved what there were fighting for years. To end with, though the Civil Rights Movement was achieved in many different forms like the violent way or the non-violent way they all led to the same goal, a good example is the voting rights of 1965 and not everyone was happy about the change but America took a step on a journey of a thousand miles to achieving a more perfect union and what a step it was.