In August 1963 thousands of Americans marched to Washington DC ( document 3). At the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech” this is one civil rights movement that successfully put things in motion. The civil rights movement was successful in getting public places, voting, and education attainable for African-Americans.
Just one year later in 1964, the civil rights act was passed, an excerpt from the act states “All persons shall be entitled to full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in the section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin” (document 4). The civil rights movement forced the government to put forth a solution to the injustice of segregation.
However, the civil rights activists did not stop there. Another year passed and after more protesting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. An excerpt from the act declares “No voting qualification or prerequisites to …show more content…
Although some believed that the previous generation had the right idea in segregation. Georgia Wallace, Governor of Alabama, said in his inaugural speech of 1963 “...that today sound of the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history” (document 2). Yet the generations before us also believed in equality for all. In the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case the Supreme Court had concluded “...in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment”(document 1). In this case they fought for equality in education and
Just one year later in 1964, the civil rights act was passed, an excerpt from the act states “All persons shall be entitled to full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in the section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin” (document 4). The civil rights movement forced the government to put forth a solution to the injustice of segregation.
However, the civil rights activists did not stop there. Another year passed and after more protesting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. An excerpt from the act declares “No voting qualification or prerequisites to …show more content…
Although some believed that the previous generation had the right idea in segregation. Georgia Wallace, Governor of Alabama, said in his inaugural speech of 1963 “...that today sound of the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history” (document 2). Yet the generations before us also believed in equality for all. In the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case the Supreme Court had concluded “...in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment”(document 1). In this case they fought for equality in education and