Women's Influence On The Civil Rights Movement

Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Southern states still inhabited an unequal world of segregation and various forms of oppression. The movement of Civil Rights created a change that would impact women, African Americans, and people who were upset with the American government. This movement changed the country and created opportunities for many. This movement in the 1960’s was the most important social and political movement of the twentieth century.

The Civil Rights Movement, the movements of securing African Americans equal access to basic privileges and rights of a U.S. citizen. Although the movement goes as far back as the 19th century, it reached its highest point in the 1950’s and 1960’s. African Americas and white supporters organized the movement at national levels. Various methods to achieve their goal were negotiations, petitions, and nonviolent protests. The Civil Rights Movement was largest movement of the 20th century and extremely influenced the Modern Women's Rights Movement and the Student Movement of the 1960s. The movement was aimed to benefit South America as that was where the African American population was at the highest. In the south, African Americans where forbidden to education, job opportunities, and from legal processes. In the 19th
These individual’s actions largely influenced The Civil Right Movement. From all the leaders involved in the movement, Martin Luther King Jr. was profoundly known for his contributions of ideas, such as his policy of non-violent protests. A word of description used by Martin Luther King Jr. was the “measure” of a person comes when things are challenging, not when everything is going as planned. During the Civil Rights movement, many African American individuals were measured on their reaction and solution towards a challenging