What Role Did Nothing Play In The Civil Rights Movement

There were many groups and individuals during the Civil Rights Movement that shaped how things were done and that would later be written in history books for the world to read. Some of the most important for the advancement of African Americans were Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP, SNCC, CORE and SCLC. But nothing was more important than Rosa Parks, the bus boycotts and the freedom rides because nothing joined the varied beliefs of the African American community together faster and better. These events did not really have a leader unlike the large organisations that were helping but only had followers of certain beliefs. One of the most sinister and extremist groups opposing the Civil Rights Movement was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) who had
The African American community were sick and tired of being segregated and not treated like equals, one of the worst places for this were buses. Blacks and whites would have to ride separate buses and blacks were often asked to leave busses so whites could use them. The buses were eventually boycotted in 1955 because of a woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white person. These boycotts lasted about a year when segregation in buses was considered unconstitutional but nothing was done to enforce this ruling. Later during 1961 in the southern states of America civil rights activists called Freedom riders started riding buses with both blacks and whites aboard. They set out to make a law against segregation on public transport, they then sent out the first freedom ride on May 4th, 1961. Its destination was Washington D.C., because they wanted this law to be passed as soon as possible. A law was pasted because of this and this sparked the Student Action for Aborigines which was the Australian equivalent of freedom rides. Their aim was to completely wipe out racism in Australia and to also race the issue of indigenous rights. The travelled around New South Wales spreading their message and also protesting at local places such as pools, parks and many
The main aim of these groups was to restore slavery and to make sure that the white man had all the power, this meant treating other races especially African Americans extremely badly and in most case not even like people. One of the most infamous acts by the KKK was in 1964 when 3 men were murdered by members of the KKK in Neshoba County, Mississippi. One of the murdered men was and African American and another was Jewish. The 3 men were murdered because they were a part of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The CORE was considered one of the ‘Big Four’ (the largest, most important groups and most influential groups during the Civil Rights Movement). The case of the missing boys was given to the FBI and was titled ‘Mississippi Burning’, the boys were found 44 days after the case was opened and 7 members of the KKK were found guilty of murder or something to do with the murders. This event was made famous through many news reports at the time and was later made into an all names changed dramatization of the KKK murders in 1964 called Mississippi Burning in 1988. Instances like this showed the government that the KKK were an extremist group that do terrible and outrageous things based on