Who Is Not The Same As The Leader Of The Civil Rights Movement

The 1950s, the decade of the baby boomers. Of course these were exciting and interesting times, though there were many devastating and awful times as well. Unfortunately, paranoia about communism caused many people to act out. In addition, the issue of racism was highly evident in many parts of the country, but mainly in the south. Although the southern part of the country seemed to be deemed as being completely against segregation, many people, both black and white, were fighting to get the equality they knew they deserved. Movements, rebellions, and revolutions resulted, all in an attempt to gain back these rights. Would these actions taken have any effect on the future? Today, racism is still evident in society, but it is not the same as
Although both Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks were members of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), the 13 month bus boycott movement that resulted from Rosa Park’s actions led to the creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, with Martin Luther King Jr. acting as President. King acted as the major spokesperson for black aspirations and movements, but additional individuals such as Rosa Parks, also initiated important black movements that would go down in history. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places, as well as banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the best accomplishments to result from the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was proposed by President John F. Kennedy but was signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. These acts are truly the powerful forces which brought racism and inequality to its
While the issue of racism was in no way solved, issues such as segregation were banned and the world became an integrated society in most if not all aspects. In the past few years, the issue of racism has been brought to the world’s attention once again, and we realized that racism was not gone from our world, simply shrunk to a smaller size, so much that it hasn’t been as noticeable. In 2012, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American high school student. Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic man, was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the community where Martin was lived. Zimmerman shot Martin, who was unarmed, during an altercation between the two. Zimmerman was charged with Martin's murder but acquitted at trial on self-defense grounds. This incident was reviewed by the Department of Justice for possible civil rights violations, but no additional charges were filed. This incident was known all around the world, and sparked the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. Black Lives Matter is a movement with the intent for broadening the conversation to include all of the ways in which Black people are intentionally left powerless at the hands of the state. There are countless ways in which Black lives are deprived of basic human rights and dignity. From police brutality to mistreatment of African American women and disabled individuals,