The African American Civil Rights Movement: An Analysis

For most individuals, it is class-action efforts that lead to progress for both their collective group and themselves. Whether we examine the African American Civil Rights Movement, the LGBT movement, or the Women’s Rights Movement, each was an effort staged and operated by many which led to the largest benefits being recognized on the individual level. The major component of these movements, however, is not the process which the groups fight for their rights, or the law’s judgment that decides that they are indeed entitled to what they requested. It is the recognition of rights of the people by the people that leads to the informal and thorough attainment of rights. I believe that individuals and identity groups have a symbiotic relationship where individuals need to have the legal consciousness necessary for form larger identity groups, while once constructed these groups are able to persuade the non-minority population to identity with and eventually recognize the rights of the group at the individual level. The complication with
In order to tie these individual gains to the larger identity movement, it is imperative to understand that the actions of the groups are the reason that these rights of the people are commonly understood. As was noted earlier in the reading, sometimes it takes the identity groups’ actions to allow people to recognize the rights of individuals, and simply an individual’s suggestion that they ought to be given certain accommodations is unlikely to persuade action from their peers. It is the group that is able to implement compassion or understanding into the general population, while the individual and is left with the organic responsibility of making the group’s efforts become assimilated with non-minority