How Did The Civil Rights Occur In The 1960s

During the 1960s African Americans weren't treated well and now they are treated as equals. They are valued better because of what Martin Luther King Jr did to help his race. People will act differently now if the Tom Robinson trial was happening now because people aren't racist anymore, people will make up assumptions, and they have equal rights now. First and foremost, people would act differently because no one is really racist anymore and people have changed. For example, in the late 1960s, the wages of black women tripled from the 1970s to the 1990s,(Dubovoy Sina). Starting around that time is when people changed. You know it's changing when they also do things to help women because during that time and even now women still don't get paid equal pay. In addition, our president is African American. If people were racist no one would vote for a black president. People just cared about what he stood for and not his racist. Moreover,
The African American Civil Rights movement was the cause of them having equal rights today (Bond Juliana). They are able to vote and able to get any job they want. “The Rights Act, signed into law by president Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965,”( Blake ). It is even easier for them to get a job because a lot of companies have a rule they need a certain amount of diverse people. Furthermore, they weren’t allowed to sit in the front of the bus or if all of the seats were taken a colored person would have to get up. On December 1st, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to obey bus driver James k Blake’s order to give up her seat in the colored section of the bus to a white passenger ( Blake). Rosa parks fought for what she believed in and didn't let anyone tell her otherwise. That was one of the rights that African Americans didn't have that we did and they now have today. In all, it would be different because African Americans have the same rights as us