Plessy V. Board Of Education In The 1950's And 1960

The 1950’s and 1960’s were plagued with racial tensions between colored Americans and white Americans. Colored Americans were denied equal access to education, jobs, and voting. After decades of oppression colored Americans had been through enough and were ready for change. The civil rights movement was supported by most colored Americans and many white Americans. The contemporaries of the 1950’s and 1960’s interpreted the civil rights movement as an era of change that could no longer be prevented; their interpretation of the civil rights era was due largely to The Brown vs. Board of education case, a moral imperative speech by John F. Kennedy, and the work done by SCLC. rephrase.

In June 1892 Plessy v. Ferguson case established the “separate
Kennedy gained much of the African American votes due to proposal that all men should be treated equally. On June 11th, 1963 John Kennedy presented a civil rights speech referring to the civil rights movement as a revolution. Kennedy went on to explain the racial issues relating to the draft in the document “A Moral Imperative: Equality of treatment his argument is if America goes out to war we do not only ask for the help of white Americans but, also African Americans. Furthermore, if African Americans are drafted to serve for the country the live in they should have the equal opportunity to vote as equal citizens that they are. In addition, in Kennedy’s speech, students of any race or color attending any public institution should be protected by their rights as a U.S citizen. As for the safety of these Americans Kennedy stated that they serve the right to have as much equal service in public institutions, dining areas, and stores like a white American would have. JFk explains, 100 years ago Abraham Lincoln freed slaves so the next generation could have a better opportunity as a regular citizen but, these African Americans are not fully free. African American’s are faced with injustice and discriminated against these Americans. American is dealing with a problem that only congress could fully enforce. Kennedys proposal was that race has no place in American life or law. In the mid 1960s the southern Christian leadership came about boycotting with nonviolence. in the document “this is sclc” martin Luther king and many others aimed to fulfill full citizenship rights, equality, and integration of African Americans. Martin Luther king and his leadership wanted to get their point across by using a lot of nonviolence motions. For example, the philosophy of the SCLC was to spread peace and love and believed that civil disobedience is a natural consequence of non violence. In addition, the SCLC wanted to create an easier