Introduction
Discrimination is one kind of inequality case example among humanity. One case that still happen until today is black people discrimination. The biggest movement to raise the black people's right happen around 1950's - 1960's. Civil Right Movement 1960s was a movement created toward inequality in African-Americans in politics and social. The purpose of this movement is to efface the discrimination of African-Americans and restore the legal rights of black people.The struggle to secure federal protection of civil rights legalization on the 14th and 15th amendments by the US constitution continued throughout the next century. In public facilities and government services such as education divided …show more content…
At the same time when African-Americans were stripped of their rights, white Democrats impose racial segregation by law. Violence against blacks people increased. For example, racially mixed places, non-whites (black) had to wait until all white customers were handled. But then, African-American against it all in various ways through new organizations and organizing workers to end this discrimination. Through nonviolent protests, the civil rights movements 1960s split the pattern of public facilities separated by "races" in the South United States.
Civil Right Movement 1960
The Second World War increased African American migration from the American South to northern cities to strengthen rights, dignity, and independence that began in the prewar era with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National urban League. In 1950s, the issue regarding racial discrimination had started, along with many others that led to a strong demand for equal rights. This movement in America had reached its peak in 1950s-1960s, when all the discriminated struggled for acknowledgement of their rights. The racial issues were pretty much a continuation of what had already happened in late 19th …show more content…
was the preeminent figure in the United States during this time. He embraced Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence. Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian social and political activist. King was a defender of black rights. The most remarkable moment of civil rights movement happened in 1963, when more than 200,000 people of African-Americans and whites gathered to voice their protest of racial discrimination on Washington DC. This march featured a phenomenal speech "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr., which became a symbol of equality and freedom for the movement. His personal participation in countless demonstration, his willingness to go to jail for a cause that he believed to be just, and his ability as an orator to arouse both blacks and whites with his message led to his position as it was. However, it ended by assassination in 1968. Then, other black leaders sought complete independence from whites. Malcolm X was the most influential of the black nationalists. He was a spokesman for the Black Muslim movement, urged blacks to renew their commitment to their own heritage, to establish black businesses, and to defend against white domination economically, politically, and psychologically. Same thing happened, Malcolm was assassinated in 1965. In the 1960s, civil rights laws passed under President Lyndon B. Johnson brought Americans some measure of equality with regard to voting rights, and to much lesser degree, school