How Has Government Intervention Affect The Idea Of Civil Rights?

Throughout history, government intervention has been a hot topic. But how has government intervention affected the idea of civil rights? In short, the effect of this intervention is negligible. Has government intervention helped to establish racial equality? It has been minimally, we can see this exemplified through countless acts, laws, amendments, and movements. Has equality been achieved and why has it taken hundreds of years to get to where we are? No, it hasn't, and it's taken so long because the only progress made has been by the people. Government intervention has minimal effect on the equality of the people these acts are being imposed on. We can see this through countless laws and acts passed by the government. Directly after the Civil
In Exchange, the North got their candidate elected as president. This fact is unimportant to the main topic though, what truly matters is that the South, when the North withdrew, still held up the North's rules however they made some alterations. They introduced new ways to discriminate against their African American population, imposing grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests. All of these factors helped to continue the oppression of Native American people in the South even though there was government intervention present. There are many other examples where, even through government intervention, African Americans are still discriminated against. Even with the removal of slavery, we can see this ever-present theme. The US government outlawed slavery, yet there were still means present in which African Americans could not truly be enslaved. One of these means is sharecropping. After the US government outlawed slavery, plantation owners and other landholders were struggling to find people to work their land, so they introduced
In all cases, government intervention has had little positive effect. The government imposing new laws and ideas has always been undone by people finding their way around these laws. Every time any attempt at progress has been made by the government, we see it unwound by the people inside of that government. However, there has still been progress made, but this progress is only made when individual people stand up for their rights and start a movement. The government cannot control what its people do, but the people can control what they do. Racial equality has been strived for in our society, but like many other things, total equality is impossible. There will always be some sort of prejudice or something detracting from the idea of perfect equality. We have countless acts in place to improve upon the equality that is present, but total equality has and never will be reached. This is simply because the government, while being able to impose laws and acts which tell us what we should be doing, cannot force us to think the same way or to act accordingly. As stated previously, the government cannot control what its people do, only its people