Long Term Causes Of The Civil Rights Movement

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN USA It was it the civil disobedience that won African Americans the civil rights? The civil rights movement in 1950’s was significant because it would bring equality to blacks and whites. Once slavery was abolished in 1863, there had been conflict between the two races that lived in the United States. The civil rights were based on the colour of one's’ skin. This essay about civil right movement in the USA will include Jim Crow laws, Rosa Parks, the history on the civil rights, segregation/ racial issues and how it changed America today. Some of these are long and short term causes. One long term cause was the slavery in the West. Primary cause of the civil war was the expansion of slavery. This lead to the civil war because they created more tension between the north and the south over slavery in the west, and the industrial and sectional differences between the two areas, this was one of the long term causes. What lead to the Civil War than to the Civil Rights Movement? The civil rights movement began in the 1950s. in 1955 a black woman Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. By this act of protest Parks was arrested. This started a boycott of the bus system, as the blacks no longer wanted to sit at the back of the bus any more. …show more content…
During the Great Migration in 1910-1920 thousands of African American’s poured into the industrial cities to find work. After freedom summer was launched in Mississippi members of the congress in Washington D.C debated a new civil rights bill. After president Kennedy, who was assassinated in November 1963, failed to get any civil rights passed. A new president, Lyndon B. Johnson pledged his support for the new bill. As segregation tightened and racial oppression escalated across the US, some leaders of the African Americans community. This information was also taken from the book a witness to civil rights in the