How Do African Americans Achieve Their Goals

Within the United States many ethnic groups rights’ were being segregated and discriminated against. Some of the groups were African-Americans and Native Americans. Their rights have been often limited and suppressed by their opponents in who tried to illuminate them. Although African Americans were segregated, they began to fight for their rights. Started from 1950-1970 they have used various methods to achieve their goals. Although African-Americans and Native Americans used different way to fight the opposing side,eventually they have reached their goals. One of the most impactful organization for colored people during 1950 was National Association for the Advancement of Colored People established in 1909. NAACP was organization that aimed to demolish segregation and establish the equality. NAACP had influenced the final …show more content…
The Bus boycott was significant because transportation companies who owned buses were unable to gain a profit due to the non-violent boycott. This was important because Montgomery Bus Boycott encouraged those who owned buses to let African-Americans to seat on buses and allowed integration. Therefore,in “November 1956 Supreme Court affirmed decision Browder v Gayle which found bus segregation unconstitutional”(Buggey J., Danzer,G 1984) Martin Luther King was another civil rights protester who had significant impact on African-American’s history. In fact, Martin Luther King read book about Gandhi which influenced him to take non-violent methods. “King believed that organized, nonviolent protest against the system of southern segregation known as Jim Crow would lead to extensive media coverage of the struggle for black equality and voting rights” (Anonymous 1) Later on, in 1963 Martin Luther King and his colleagues were able to set up a March in Washington where MLK announce his famous “I have a dream” speech. March in Washington was important because it ended segregation in public schools and it helped to set up