Civil Rights Movement Chapter Summaries

The textbook seems to focus more on the more civil part of the struggle to have equal rights and to be realized as a human being, the textbook focuses on Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and the government issuing amendments and other acts to try force people to treat each other equally but people like Rosa Parks definitely helped the initiation of desegregation after she was arrested for not moving to the colored section of the Montgomery Bus Line which started a boycott of said bus line and got the Supreme court to rule that segregation inferred inferiority and Martin Luther King was extremely important activist as well who would lead freedom marches, non-violent protests, sit ins, and public disobedience to unjust laws that glot people's …show more content…
Moving from a less civil fight for equal rights was probably the best thing that happened to the fight because some of the arguments against letting African AMericans be equal with caucasians was that they were nothing but animals or they couldn't fend for themselves and that they needed whites to survive political violence would only support this idea by showing that black folk would only abuse their freedom by attacking the government and state related things but other things like self defense helped show that black folk were human and knew how to talk things or at least try to and even if they couldn’t they showed that they could defend themselves and didn’t need the whites to protect them/fend for them because they were perfectly of doing it themselves. People like MLK jr. really helped show how blacks didn’t need whites because they knew how to get their point across and not have to be violent or use guns. I think that without one era the other era would as good as pointless because the self defense era helped form the non-violent protest era but without the non-violent protest era African Americans may have never had the same freedoms as