Significant Changes Of The Civil Rights Movement

Significant changes to society are difficult; a great change is usually brought about by a major event. Occasionally, changes can be brought upon peacefully; but most often the changes which are violent are more commonly known. The Civil Rights Movement used a variety of nonviolent methods; whereas what may have sparked this movement (The Attack on Pearl Harbor) was a brutal. The Attack on Pearl Harbor took place on December 7, 1941. For two hours, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. There was over 2,000 American soldiers and sailors who died and additional 1,000 were wounded. The following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; congress