Media's Influence On The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement was a massive movement in the 1950s for African Americans to obtain normal privileges and equality. The impact of the movement caused an act to be constructed called the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 1964 Civil Rights Act established it to where it was now illegal to separate people based on race and color. Making a free country was only possible with the role of the media, whites and blacks working together, and the Cold War. These all helped immensely with the conclusion of the Civil Rights Movement in reaching equality.
The role of the media played a tremendous impact on The Civil Rights Movement by showing Americans the violence of segregation on television. The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches in which six hundred civil rights marchers planned to march from Selma to Montgomery. During this march, the state troopers intercepted the march by the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The state troopers shot tear gas into the crowd and beat the protesters with clubs after ordering them to turn around. This event left over fifty people hospitalized and soon became known as the Bloody Sunday. The Bloody Sunday was televised all across the world showing the vicious attacks on peaceful protesters, which ultimately changed the tide of how people now react towards segregation and helped in passing the federal Voting Rights Act.
The Freedom Riders were a group of white and black civil rights activists that fought for the desegregation of their buses and terminals. The Freedom Riders would ride buses into the south in order to challenge racial segregation. The protest that the Freedom Riders were doing was very dangerous as the south was very racist; and thus causing groups like the Ku Klux Klan to attack and beat the Freedom Riders, and even firebomb their busses at times. The Freedom Riders binding together would result in the desegregation of buses and