How Did So Many Racial Groups That Occur During The Civil Rights Movement?

During the Civil Rights Movements many oppressed races of people came together to form groups to fight for their rights. Throughout the Civil Rights movement many different racial groups were treated extremely unfair and knew the best option for them to gain equality was to stand together. Nearly all racial groups used this strategy, but when it came to their choices on how to rebel for equality, everyone had a different strategy. African Americans faced some of the same problems Natives faced and took on the challenge for equality with similar methods. One of the problems Natives Americans and African Americans both faced was harassment and assault by police. While Native American men did not get harassed as much because of their fierce looks and unique traditions, the Native
When police attacked Africans who were part of the Black Panther Party, the victim would often use their guns to protect themselves and their families. Another problem Africans and Natives faced was broken treaties. The government made over 500 treaties with Native American tribes and broke or changed all of them in their own favor. The majority of these treaties were for large plots of land. Their land is there most treasured belonging and for the government to take it created lots of problems and caused deaths on both sides. The Natives had a lot of different types of strategies from spiritual dances to shoving grass down a Commissioners throat to The Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was caused when Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 which forced Natives to move West. Eight years later, 16,000 Natives marched on untainted land from Oklahoma to Washington D.C a week before the Presidential Election. This was a distance of over 1,200 miles and by the end 4000 Natives were dead. African Americans had a very different contract which was also broken by the government