How Did The Civil Rights Movement Change The Nation

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s did effectively change the nation. The Civil Rights Movement effectively changed the nation because it banned discrimination and segregation on the basis of race, religion, national origin, and sex. Discrimination and segregation were no longer allowed at workplaces, schools, and public places, such as restaurants. According to Ofari-Hutchinson, the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 allowed Americans, and other nationalities around the world, to see the racial injustices African Americans had to experience. Ralph D. Fertig, a USC social worker and member of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, believed that the Civil Rights Movement had completely changed America. Before the movement, employers were allowed to have signs up that said that Negros could not work at their businesses or that only whites were allowed at their business, but during and after the movement, most employers did not have these same signs up anymore.

The Civil Rights Movement also effectively changed the nation by changing schools. The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case had ruled that
This act also offered other protections regarding voting. This in turn made America more of a democracy because before the Civil Rights Movement, only seven percent of African Americans in Mississippi were allowed to vote. This act made it possible for millions of other African Americans to vote for the first time since the Reconstruction Era. In 1960, only twenty percent of African Americans had been registered to vote, but by 1971, sixty-two percent of African Americans were registered to