The Necessity for the Civil Rights Movement “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed. ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’" (King). The Civil Rights movement was something necessary for everyone. It was especially important for the many African Americans, no matter the age, to be recognized as individuals, not as animals or degenerates. In 1896, a man named Homer Plessy refused to leave the white section of a train car. Therefore, Plessy was arrested and Plessy V. Ferguson went to the supreme court which ended “By a 7-1 vote, the Court said that a state law that ‘implies merely a legal distinction’ between the two races did not conflict with the 13th Amendment forbidding
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Three days later, his corpse was recovered but was so disfigured that Mose Wright could only identify it by an initialed ring” (History.com). Obviously, the South was so corrupt that the white citizens would lynch anyone, even a 14 year-old boy from Chicago, because they wanted to “put blacks in their place.” The movement was needed to show that children were now being thrown into the group of lynchings, and the aggravated white people were not going to settle until they percolated the flow of blood. Emmett Till was considered a degenerate; he didn’t follow the South’s expectations and that ultimately led to his death, but his murder was still unjust because the treatment of African Americans was cruel. Lastly, in 1963, the famous Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” defending his views on nonviolence because the Clergymen criticized the beliefs of King’s efforts. After King explains why the Clergy were wrong for telling the African Americans to “wait,” King responded, “When your first name becomes ‘nigger’ and your middle name becomes ‘boy’ (however old you are) and your last name becomes ‘John,’ and when your wife and mother are
Three days later, his corpse was recovered but was so disfigured that Mose Wright could only identify it by an initialed ring” (History.com). Obviously, the South was so corrupt that the white citizens would lynch anyone, even a 14 year-old boy from Chicago, because they wanted to “put blacks in their place.” The movement was needed to show that children were now being thrown into the group of lynchings, and the aggravated white people were not going to settle until they percolated the flow of blood. Emmett Till was considered a degenerate; he didn’t follow the South’s expectations and that ultimately led to his death, but his murder was still unjust because the treatment of African Americans was cruel. Lastly, in 1963, the famous Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” defending his views on nonviolence because the Clergymen criticized the beliefs of King’s efforts. After King explains why the Clergy were wrong for telling the African Americans to “wait,” King responded, “When your first name becomes ‘nigger’ and your middle name becomes ‘boy’ (however old you are) and your last name becomes ‘John,’ and when your wife and mother are