The Civil Rights Movement noticed clear discrimination and injustices being done to them by people in higher authority. In their case, members of government were deterring their right as United States’ citizens to vote by enforcing Jim Crowe laws, which were discriminatory laws put in place strictly to bar African Americans from being able to vote or register to vote, particularly in the Southern part of the United States. As in Marx’s original theory where the proletariat are denied resources available to the bourgeois, who use their power to control social institutions, like government, as explained in “The Three Main Sociological Perspectives” as published in Understanding Social Problems. African Americans were being denied the right to vote, a tactic by Caucasians, who were blocking the right through racist laws. This situation directly fits Marx’s formula, because even though the Civil Rights Movement did not react in violence or confrontation, conflict still occurred. Black Lives Matter fits into the conflict theory as well. An interesting thing to note is one of the three founders of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza is influenced by Malcom X, who was classified as a conflict theorist, and she too describes herself as one embracing the conflict theory. Black Lives Matter is protesting African Americans being denied the right to being treated equally especially in situations involving the police. American Americans feel profiled for their race and are being treated with unjust and sometimes deadly brutality by law enforcement. The conflict theory is being engaged in both movements, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter
The Civil Rights Movement noticed clear discrimination and injustices being done to them by people in higher authority. In their case, members of government were deterring their right as United States’ citizens to vote by enforcing Jim Crowe laws, which were discriminatory laws put in place strictly to bar African Americans from being able to vote or register to vote, particularly in the Southern part of the United States. As in Marx’s original theory where the proletariat are denied resources available to the bourgeois, who use their power to control social institutions, like government, as explained in “The Three Main Sociological Perspectives” as published in Understanding Social Problems. African Americans were being denied the right to vote, a tactic by Caucasians, who were blocking the right through racist laws. This situation directly fits Marx’s formula, because even though the Civil Rights Movement did not react in violence or confrontation, conflict still occurred. Black Lives Matter fits into the conflict theory as well. An interesting thing to note is one of the three founders of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza is influenced by Malcom X, who was classified as a conflict theorist, and she too describes herself as one embracing the conflict theory. Black Lives Matter is protesting African Americans being denied the right to being treated equally especially in situations involving the police. American Americans feel profiled for their race and are being treated with unjust and sometimes deadly brutality by law enforcement. The conflict theory is being engaged in both movements, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter