Looking back from the film, the lecture, and the textbook, I see one trend that always shows up in each event throughout the civil rights movement. This trend is the fact that white Americans were not willing to sacrifice their superiority over African-Americans, and they were going to do everything in their power to make sure that African-Americans were not the same as Anglo-Americans because of their color. White Americans were not willing to give African-Americans their rights stated throughout legislation and the Constitution because African-Americans would become their equals which they had never experienced before. It is important to state the beginnings of racial segregation because it sets the stage for the civil rights movement. During
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This commenced the precursor to desegregation. A radio station that was listened to by whites and blacks was unheard of. The start of the civil rights movement officially began whenever a woman boarded a bus, sat in the white only section, and refused to move. She was a prominent, black activist, without a criminal record, and her name was Rosa Parks. When people tell the story of Rosa Parks, they often say that, “When Rosa Parks sat down, all blacks stood up.” When Rosa Parks refused to cooperate, she was then arrested for non-violent civil disobedience, a tactic that Martin Luther King, Jr. was most famous for. Martin Luther King, Jr. took Rosa’s incident and appealed to the black community to boycott the bus line until they agreed to desegregate their buses. Their boycott lasted a little under a year, until the bus company finally decided to give in and desegregate their buses. The bus company served mainly blacks and with their boycott, the bus company would soon close if they did not comply. Martin Luther’s theory of non-violent civil disobedience spread like wildfire throughout the whole black …show more content…
This when an individual named Malcom X came into the picture. Malcom X had the philosophy that African-Americans should exercise armed violence to get their point across. During this time Martin Luther became the mediator between Malcom X and northern blacks who wanted economic and social justice rather than desegregation. With the civil rights movement at its peak, the cold war escalating, tensions in Asia, and the tensions between East and West Berlin, the United States government must have had their plate full throughout the whole 1960s with all of the chaos going on around them. The civil rights movement was one of the brutalist movement in U.S. history, especially with events such as that of Sargent Woodard and the events that occurred on Bloody Sunday. This film tied into class because of the escalation in black communities for equal rights amidst all of the other events that the U.S. was dealing with at the time. It is hard to believe that our elected officials were dealing with the civil rights movement, the USSR, and Vietnam at the same time because each of these situations were crucial towards the survival of the United States at the
This commenced the precursor to desegregation. A radio station that was listened to by whites and blacks was unheard of. The start of the civil rights movement officially began whenever a woman boarded a bus, sat in the white only section, and refused to move. She was a prominent, black activist, without a criminal record, and her name was Rosa Parks. When people tell the story of Rosa Parks, they often say that, “When Rosa Parks sat down, all blacks stood up.” When Rosa Parks refused to cooperate, she was then arrested for non-violent civil disobedience, a tactic that Martin Luther King, Jr. was most famous for. Martin Luther King, Jr. took Rosa’s incident and appealed to the black community to boycott the bus line until they agreed to desegregate their buses. Their boycott lasted a little under a year, until the bus company finally decided to give in and desegregate their buses. The bus company served mainly blacks and with their boycott, the bus company would soon close if they did not comply. Martin Luther’s theory of non-violent civil disobedience spread like wildfire throughout the whole black …show more content…
This when an individual named Malcom X came into the picture. Malcom X had the philosophy that African-Americans should exercise armed violence to get their point across. During this time Martin Luther became the mediator between Malcom X and northern blacks who wanted economic and social justice rather than desegregation. With the civil rights movement at its peak, the cold war escalating, tensions in Asia, and the tensions between East and West Berlin, the United States government must have had their plate full throughout the whole 1960s with all of the chaos going on around them. The civil rights movement was one of the brutalist movement in U.S. history, especially with events such as that of Sargent Woodard and the events that occurred on Bloody Sunday. This film tied into class because of the escalation in black communities for equal rights amidst all of the other events that the U.S. was dealing with at the time. It is hard to believe that our elected officials were dealing with the civil rights movement, the USSR, and Vietnam at the same time because each of these situations were crucial towards the survival of the United States at the