Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States coexisted with Cold War and the anti-colonial movement in Asia and Africa. From the ending of WWII, in which African Americans and some Whites were determined not to have what they’ve seen in Germany happen in the U.S., to the beginning years of the Cold War, the African American Freedom Struggle advanced by developments. These developments included legalism, lobbying, Black labor unions that involved labor and social justice issues, and the attempt to unify the Blacks’ civil rights struggle and the anti-colonial struggle. All things considered, these developments represented an extensive list of goals, which overall was abbreviated and devitalized by …show more content…
Legalism, introduced and built by Charlie Houston and Walter White, was one of the main methods the NAACP used in order to push for African American civil rights. Legalism included lobbying, making court cases, making connections with important people. One of the most monumental cases stemmed from legalism was the Brown vs. Board of Education, that declared segregated schools for Black and White students as unconstitutional. Granting that this was an enormous victory for African Americans, it was not necessarily put into motion right away. For example, very few Southern states enforced the Brown decision until later. The resistance of the new laws, also stunted the African American’s freedom struggle because instead on moving on to the next issue, they had to keep fighting for the issue of desegregation of schools, which legalism no longer necessarily held any weight by …show more content…
In the 50’s, most of the attention was surrounded around the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 . This decision made segregated education between Whites and Blacks unconstitutional. Other historical events that took place during these years included the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Mississippi Freedom Summer in which acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience yielded dangerous situations and prolific conversation between activists and the government. However, during this time, different groups such as NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). were being established, which housed different methods in achieving civil rights. Although numerous groups and methods emerged, one still has to acknowledge that the movement’s overall goal was to diminish the laws of Jim Crow and change America for the
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States coexisted with Cold War and the anti-colonial movement in Asia and Africa. From the ending of WWII, in which African Americans and some Whites were determined not to have what they’ve seen in Germany happen in the U.S., to the beginning years of the Cold War, the African American Freedom Struggle advanced by developments. These developments included legalism, lobbying, Black labor unions that involved labor and social justice issues, and the attempt to unify the Blacks’ civil rights struggle and the anti-colonial struggle. All things considered, these developments represented an extensive list of goals, which overall was abbreviated and devitalized by …show more content…
Legalism, introduced and built by Charlie Houston and Walter White, was one of the main methods the NAACP used in order to push for African American civil rights. Legalism included lobbying, making court cases, making connections with important people. One of the most monumental cases stemmed from legalism was the Brown vs. Board of Education, that declared segregated schools for Black and White students as unconstitutional. Granting that this was an enormous victory for African Americans, it was not necessarily put into motion right away. For example, very few Southern states enforced the Brown decision until later. The resistance of the new laws, also stunted the African American’s freedom struggle because instead on moving on to the next issue, they had to keep fighting for the issue of desegregation of schools, which legalism no longer necessarily held any weight by …show more content…
In the 50’s, most of the attention was surrounded around the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 . This decision made segregated education between Whites and Blacks unconstitutional. Other historical events that took place during these years included the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Mississippi Freedom Summer in which acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience yielded dangerous situations and prolific conversation between activists and the government. However, during this time, different groups such as NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). were being established, which housed different methods in achieving civil rights. Although numerous groups and methods emerged, one still has to acknowledge that the movement’s overall goal was to diminish the laws of Jim Crow and change America for the