The Civil Rights Movement Of The Mid-1950's

When systems are unfair and unjust, change agents must intervene to change the broken systems.(Mandell & Schram, pg ) One of the most influential system change efforts to occur in the history of the United States is the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1950’s through the 1960s. In focusing on the Civil Rights Movement during the Kennedy Administration Era, I hope to construct an analysis on the root of poverty within the African American population, and the process put forward to change the Government system. The purpose would be to demonstrate how the Civil Rights Movement paved the way for the process employed to bring about change in Social Policies. Who were the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and what were they trying to accomplish? Who was responsible for the problems African Americans faced and what attitudes did it challenge? …show more content…
On May 8th, 1865, the Civil War came to a close and the former Southern Confederacy suffered from a unanimous loss. President Lincoln then amended the 13th Amendment to the constitution of the United States, Abolishing slavery and giving Blacks their freedom. The 14th Amendment and 15th Amendment would follow suit in later years, guaranteeing the freedmen American citizenships and the rights to own land and property, political inclusiveness and the rights to vote respectively. This Era of Radical Reconstruction laid the groundwork for African American rights in the U.S.A. and freedom while overruling Southern State powers into the Federal Government powers to ensure Black