How important was the Double V Campaign and WW2 in the growing demand for Civil Rights between 1945 and 1968?
Before WW2 not much had changed in the Civil Rights Campaign: People still had the view of ‘separate but equal’ and the Jim Crow laws were still in place. However in the mid 60’s the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Acts made significant changes towards Civil Rights. The Double V Campaign and WW2 were important in the growing demand for Civil Rights between 1945 and 1968 to a certain extent. However Prejudice and Discrimination, Effective Black Organisations and Effective Black Leaders were all important factors too.
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He was the head of the Southern Christian leadership Conference and brought other churchmen together to protest peacefully and non-violent. King lead a march in Birmingham, Alabama. He brought young children into the march and the government used tear gas and fire hoses on them. This violence made the white people look terrible but made blacks look innocent and responsible. This shows that Martin Luther King lead black people well to give them a positive image in the media, showing blacks behaving nobly and rationally in the face of racism and brutality that would encourage the government to give them more civil rights. King also organised a march to Washington in 1964 and preformed his “I have a dream speech” in front of 250000 white and black people, where he declared he wanted de-segregation. This shows that he was telling his ideas to both white and black people to bring them together to give black people more rights. Effective black leaders were important in the growing demand for Civil rights between 1945 and 1968. This was a less important factor than the Double V Campaign and WW2 as there was actually no laws changed, however WW2 brought about the executive order 8802 to stop
Before WW2 not much had changed in the Civil Rights Campaign: People still had the view of ‘separate but equal’ and the Jim Crow laws were still in place. However in the mid 60’s the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Acts made significant changes towards Civil Rights. The Double V Campaign and WW2 were important in the growing demand for Civil Rights between 1945 and 1968 to a certain extent. However Prejudice and Discrimination, Effective Black Organisations and Effective Black Leaders were all important factors too.
During WW2, over 1 million black men served in the armed forces, however everything was operated in …show more content…
He was the head of the Southern Christian leadership Conference and brought other churchmen together to protest peacefully and non-violent. King lead a march in Birmingham, Alabama. He brought young children into the march and the government used tear gas and fire hoses on them. This violence made the white people look terrible but made blacks look innocent and responsible. This shows that Martin Luther King lead black people well to give them a positive image in the media, showing blacks behaving nobly and rationally in the face of racism and brutality that would encourage the government to give them more civil rights. King also organised a march to Washington in 1964 and preformed his “I have a dream speech” in front of 250000 white and black people, where he declared he wanted de-segregation. This shows that he was telling his ideas to both white and black people to bring them together to give black people more rights. Effective black leaders were important in the growing demand for Civil rights between 1945 and 1968. This was a less important factor than the Double V Campaign and WW2 as there was actually no laws changed, however WW2 brought about the executive order 8802 to stop