What civil rights groups influenced how you, as an individual, are treated today? In the United States, racial tolerance has been the product of various struggles by civil rights groups and individuals over several decades. As racial tolerance should be one of the basic foundations of any society, it had to be attained through various routes in America; some being peaceful, while unfortunately the majority being violent. For African Americans, tolerance through civil rights was achieved through two overlapping movements. The first movement was the desegregation movement, aimed at ending the separation of blacks and whites and integrating them into one American community, such as the movement headed by Martin Luther King Jr . The second movement
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After moving to New York City in 1918 and witnessing the poverty of blacks in the ghetto, Garvey sought to improve their situation. Garvey started the United Negro Improvement Association, or the UNIA, to help blacks (Biography.com Editors). The UNIA had two major projects: The Black Star Line and the Liberian Project.The Black Star Line was a steamship company, started in 1919, that aimed at increasing trade in black communities around the world. It hired all black sailors, and sold stocks to only blacks (Biography.com Editors). Unfortunately the project was terminated in 1922 due to mismanagement of funds and the poor conduct of the ships. In his Liberian Project, Garvey brought up the same old idea of trying to colonize Liberia, the forgotten project of the ACS, and sought to move nearly half of the African-American population there. Garvey wanted to build institutions and transportation hubs, so the citizens could have access to modern amenities (Biography.com Editors). This plan was terminated as well, as there were virtually no African Americans who wanted to move. Even though Garvey’s plan at financially helping the blacks failed, Garvey succeeded at giving blacks confidence, which they didn’t have before. He finally put black nationalism in action. This action is what grew black nationalism from a fleeting idea to a full fledged movement that changed the perception of …show more content…
They did not care as to how it would achieve that goal. They wanted blacks to have independence and economic power, even if it was achieved through violence because they believed that the peaceful desegregation movements attitude and actions were not effective. Black nationalists believed that for political empowerment blacks needed to have self-determination, racial intolerance, separatism, self-sufficiency, black pride, and the quest for a separate nation (”Black Nationalism.”) Black nationalists believe that they needed institutions which would provide them with control and resources, even if these institutions were racist towards the majority race (McNeil and Mintz). Black nationalists were also the most intolerant and more likely to have and express anti-white sentiments than any other civil rights group (Davis and Brown). This is so because they believed that the whites have prevented them from making progress and have demeaned them for
After moving to New York City in 1918 and witnessing the poverty of blacks in the ghetto, Garvey sought to improve their situation. Garvey started the United Negro Improvement Association, or the UNIA, to help blacks (Biography.com Editors). The UNIA had two major projects: The Black Star Line and the Liberian Project.The Black Star Line was a steamship company, started in 1919, that aimed at increasing trade in black communities around the world. It hired all black sailors, and sold stocks to only blacks (Biography.com Editors). Unfortunately the project was terminated in 1922 due to mismanagement of funds and the poor conduct of the ships. In his Liberian Project, Garvey brought up the same old idea of trying to colonize Liberia, the forgotten project of the ACS, and sought to move nearly half of the African-American population there. Garvey wanted to build institutions and transportation hubs, so the citizens could have access to modern amenities (Biography.com Editors). This plan was terminated as well, as there were virtually no African Americans who wanted to move. Even though Garvey’s plan at financially helping the blacks failed, Garvey succeeded at giving blacks confidence, which they didn’t have before. He finally put black nationalism in action. This action is what grew black nationalism from a fleeting idea to a full fledged movement that changed the perception of …show more content…
They did not care as to how it would achieve that goal. They wanted blacks to have independence and economic power, even if it was achieved through violence because they believed that the peaceful desegregation movements attitude and actions were not effective. Black nationalists believed that for political empowerment blacks needed to have self-determination, racial intolerance, separatism, self-sufficiency, black pride, and the quest for a separate nation (”Black Nationalism.”) Black nationalists believe that they needed institutions which would provide them with control and resources, even if these institutions were racist towards the majority race (McNeil and Mintz). Black nationalists were also the most intolerant and more likely to have and express anti-white sentiments than any other civil rights group (Davis and Brown). This is so because they believed that the whites have prevented them from making progress and have demeaned them for