Discrimination in the 1930’s Throughout history, African Americans have struggled with equal rights since the beginning of the United States of America. They were treated as if they were less than the Europeans. Jim Crow laws are the laws that allow African Americans to be treated in this way. Many court cases were fought to reverse the treatment of Blacks in everyday life. The civil rights movement was started in the 1950s to change the way African Americans were viewed.
TREATMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
In the history of African Americans, they have struggled with being treated poorly. Richard Wilson explains, “Civil rights are among the most basic of all conceptions of human individual rights, but they must be paired with civil liberties to be effective”(1). Civil rights should be a privilege that every human being on planet Earth should have, but to have civil rights the government also has to agree and make laws that enforce them. Civil rights protect every person from being treated poorly by another person(Wilson 1). During the 1930s African Americans did not have any civil rights. Whites were allowed to treat them as if they are disgusting animals. There were no laws to prevent them from being treated cruelly.
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The government allowed the poor treatment of the African Americans till the civil rights movement started. “The passing of the Civil RIghts Act of 1964 was the result of a hard fought battle years in the making” (6). The Civil rights movement was the result of the way African Americans were treated. Rosa Parks was the official start of the Civil Rights Movement. She was not willing to give up her seat for a white adult on the bus. This was the start of African Americans battling their ill
TREATMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
In the history of African Americans, they have struggled with being treated poorly. Richard Wilson explains, “Civil rights are among the most basic of all conceptions of human individual rights, but they must be paired with civil liberties to be effective”(1). Civil rights should be a privilege that every human being on planet Earth should have, but to have civil rights the government also has to agree and make laws that enforce them. Civil rights protect every person from being treated poorly by another person(Wilson 1). During the 1930s African Americans did not have any civil rights. Whites were allowed to treat them as if they are disgusting animals. There were no laws to prevent them from being treated cruelly.
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The government allowed the poor treatment of the African Americans till the civil rights movement started. “The passing of the Civil RIghts Act of 1964 was the result of a hard fought battle years in the making” (6). The Civil rights movement was the result of the way African Americans were treated. Rosa Parks was the official start of the Civil Rights Movement. She was not willing to give up her seat for a white adult on the bus. This was the start of African Americans battling their ill