Civil Right Movement Research Paper

Civil right movement was very important event in U.S history. It changed every African americans lives to give them what they deserve. The goal of the civil right movement was to end racial segregation in the country and make African Americans equal with whites.The southern states of the united state treated african american as a second class citizen and they had everything separate from the whites such as school, restaurant, trains and restrooms. That means there was a separate restroom for black and another one for just whites, and especially train car for whites and another one for just blacks. They said separated but equal. However blacks were treated like animals and they had no respect from the white community, even with the right to …show more content…
He still in perion until this day. The documentary film incident at Oglala document the death of the two FBI agents that were killed at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975 which help us understand this situation better. Native American had be treated like they do not own anything, the american are forgetting that the native american were here before them so they own the place just like anybody else. The occupation of alcatraz is a good example for that. It was a situation of alcatraz island where 89 american indian asked the government to give that island to the indians to make it a place where they can practice their culture but when the government ignored them, they just stayed there and kept protesting until the federal government removed them from the islan. Indians wanted that island to be their cultural center and university for a long time since 1960s but they couldn’t get it. The