Why Is Civil Rights Important In History?

A big topic discussed in society today and was talked about in history is Civil Rights. Civil rights are the rights of citizens for political and social freedom and equality (Dictionary.com). Before the sixty’s one of the most well known civil right issues was for white and African American people to be treated equal. Back before the sixty’s African Americans were treated poorly compared to the way whites were treated. For example African Americans couldn’t use white’s bathrooms. I for one think that all people should be treated equal like Martin Luther King Junior said “people shouldn’t be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”. Honestly I think it’s almost hysterical how much a person can care about the way someone looks. If an African American person was hungry and wanted to eat at a restaurant they either had to go to the back door of the restaurant; or restaurants had a separate spot just for African Americans, so they were separated from the white people. There were even times where people refused to serve them so they
one group was called freedom riders. freedom riders were when African Americans and the little amount of whites that disagreed with segregation got together and went against the law to make a point. What I mean by this is the African Americans went in the whites bathroom,used the whites lunch counters, sat in the front of the bus, and more things that were against the law; the white freedom riders used the African Americans bathrooms, african american lunch counter, and sat in the back of the buses, and many more too. This all was good in the beginning, but then people got mad and started blowing the buses up and beating the African American and white freedom riders (Call to