Essay On The Color In The Civil Rights Movement

In America there are hundreds of different racial and ethnic groups. The skin color of people range from light white to dark black and different shades of these colors within each color. Although there is beauty in these difference there also comes hatred, racism and a division of what colors are inherently good and which are bad. For hundreds of years it has been engraved in the American mentality that dark skinned people are less than those that are light skinned. From 1619 to 1865 black people were mere objects to whites. Enslaved to the white people because they were not good enough, smart enough human enough to be on their own. Finally, in 1865 the black slaves were emancipated from slavery. To However, emancipation did not give Blacks the rights or the same liberties that white had /have. From 1865 to 1964 Blacks were “free” but not from the stigma and racism that still heavily existed during those days and that targeted Black Americans, such as Jim Crow Laws that denied them equal rights. In 1965 the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum and had a huge impact on the freedoms and liberties that all Americans deserve. However even 150 years after end of slavery and 50 years since the start of the civil rights movement Blacks still face great …show more content…
Cop Shoots Black Man vs Cop Shoots Man is an example. Placing race in the title of the work moves the focus. According to Frameworks Institute (2005) “articles that focus on race are explicitly intended to affect thinking about the topic” (p. 2). The first headline puts focus away from the fact that a cop has shot and killed a human being and puts the focus on the race of the victim. This changes the readers approach to the reading. And makes it easier for preconceived notations of the victims race to cloud the issue and judge the victim and what he was doing rather than on the actions of the police