The Civil Rights Movement In The 1950's

The 1950 's were the start of the Civil Rights Movement that ended in the 1960 's. This movements ' goal was to bring equality to everyone. The nation was "torn apart by racial, political, social, and cultural clashes." In the town of Oxford, North Carolina the Tyson family and a few other white families supported the civil rights movement while the majority opposed the movement and the black equality that would come with it. White supremacy was a major belief in the South back then and "permeated daily life." Because of this white supremacy many people 's jobs were affected. If you were black your job was typically "menial labor." They were "black maids" or "black janitors" but no black bankers or black storeowners. And even though "black hands" were the ones who made the food in the diners, white people did not want "black hands" to serve them food. White people considered black people to be lazy, but being worked "like a nigger" meant that they were involved in "dirty, backbreaking labor." Some …show more content…
philosophy on violence and fighting evil with good. I realized that there was some violence, but I thought most of the time they used peaceful protest and marches to earn equality. The more prominent protests have always been non-violent. Like Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which black people stopped riding the buses to hurt their towns profits, and the sit-ins at a Greensboro diner, where again the only thing they hurt was the business ' revenue. However there was quite a bit of violence, like the Birmingham protests and Henry Marrows brutal murder in Oxford. The streets of Oxford, after the protests, were described as looking "like Berlin following the Allied bombing raids of World War II." For Americans to believe that the equality movement was mainly a "nonviolent call on America 's conscience," is "the most glaring