How Did Ella's Music Replace The Civil Rights Movement?

Sweet Honey and the Rock preformed a song called, “Ella’s Song.” In the song, the lyrics tell us basically that freedom is a constant struggle. One human right issue that is still going on is racism against African Americans is society. No matter the years that pass, there will always be an incident that occurs. In the 1800s the Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared that all people born in the United States were citizens, no matter of race, color, or being enslaved. The effectiveness and legality of the document was questioned so Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment a couple of years later to strengthen these rights. A lot happened before either of these documents was passed to get them pushed over. After the Civil War in ended in 1865, white politicians in the Southern states
The Supreme Court rejected Plessy’s argument that his rights were being violated and ruled with the side of the state. This case wasn’t overturned until Brown vs. Board of Education came about.
In the 1900’s, the Scottsboro Boys were arrested after engaging in a fight with a group of white teenagers on a train to Memphis. Victoria Price and Ruby Bates accused the Scottsboro boys of rape. Then more than 82 years later in 2013, the boys were finally granted a pardon. It took years to get the boys a pardon and there were people that never stopped fight to get them free. In 1944, a carload of white men in Abbeville, Alabama, kidnapped and gang raped Recy Taylor. The men admitted to the rape but no chargers were ever brought up against the men. This issue stirred up activism and protest in the African American community. The NAACP sent Rosa Parks to investigate what was going on and Rosa fought for the rights of Recy Taylor. Rosa constantly fought for Recy Taylor and even after the second trial the men weren’t indicted. Nonetheless, Rosa Parks continued to fight for