Successes And Failures Of The Civil Rights Movement

Social Movement like Civil Rights, the second wave Women’s movement, and the New Left have created a rhetoric for social change in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Although these movement had massive followings, they were cut short both internal and external forces causing much of their work to unfinished. Weather it is assassination or internal division each of the se movement attempt to enact social change during the time, but many of the problems they faces during the 60’s and early 70’s are still seen today. Through the successes and failures of the Civil Rights movement, second wave Woman’s movement, and the rise of the New Left has given direction for todays activist in the art of non-violent protest. The destruction of the the long Civil
While, the shift in near the end of the Civil Rights movement the goal was to fix discrimination and find equal opportunity for work, education, and justice for the non-white community. Unfortunately, today blacks face problems receiving a quality education, having economic mobility, and have a high incarceration rate thus effecting their voting rights. These problem remain unsolved because policymakers do not look at the who economic difference. They only look at growing the middle class, the poor members of the black community have to go outside of the law to gain extra income. Similar to Malcolm X in his younger years, some blacks have to find a hustle to be able to move forward in life but, since law enforcement knows the increase of criminal activity they will seek out blacks having them go to prison. Criminal conviction lead to the denial of voting rights, jobs, education, and housing discrimination and the increase of blacks in prison shows that the government today is controlling the black population through overt policy
The problem that they faced was not on being a united front, their groups became a battle ground of heterosexism and racism, and that they felt their was not no change being done. The Woman’s Movements through internal splits, slowed their own forward progress. Their first failure was came with the denial of lesbian woman in the group because many of their ideology’s went against the idea of a traditional family. Even Betty Friedan, a key leader in the second wave, in her book —The Feminine Mystique— demonizes the gay community because they are out of the sexual norm. Since, the internal separation created an un-united front against their fight for better education and pay, they lose members and begin to fight among themselves. Second wave feminist were so invested in seeing everyone as the same, because they saw difference as inequality, they did not look at the problem for minority groups causing their goals to be oppressed in the group and creates more oppression internally (Class Lecture). According to the movie, Step-by-Step, the woman felt as if they were apart of a massive movement, but even through policies being made to benefit woman the progress of change was still slow. The second problem emerges when they realize that even with policies in place, it is difficult to change the mindset of men into accepting woman equally in all facets of American