Since before 1960 the United States was fighting for economic rights of African Americans. Civil rights in the 1960's were a huge controversy within the U.S. Economics plays a big part in the role of civil rights for the blacks. In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. believed that blacks need jobs just like anybody else. The two articles, "Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom" and "Evolution of a Revolutionary" oppose two different opinions for the economic views on the rights of blacks to be able to have a job. Martin Luther King Jr wrote an article called, "Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom" the article talks about the economic rights of blacks and the complications it has caused. In the 1960's there were millions of boycotts every day throughout
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In result, those companies began to lose money from being boycotted. African Americans deserved jobs just as much as anyone else. Although nonviolence boycotts resolving many controversies in the U.S. it didn't solve them all. The companies that were boycotted had two choices, to allow black employees or to shut their business down completely because they were losing money. In the second article written by George Breitman it states, "We have to learn how to own and operate the businesses of our community and develop them into some type of industry that will enable us to create employment for the people of our community so that they won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get a job." This quote affirms that they need to locate jobs for the African Americans because the boycotts were beginning to get out of hand and their companies were losing money. Breitman is stating in the second article that the nation needs to work together as a whole to overcome racism. The two articles written about the economic rights of blacks explain exactly what it was like for the African Americans to live in the U.S. in the
In result, those companies began to lose money from being boycotted. African Americans deserved jobs just as much as anyone else. Although nonviolence boycotts resolving many controversies in the U.S. it didn't solve them all. The companies that were boycotted had two choices, to allow black employees or to shut their business down completely because they were losing money. In the second article written by George Breitman it states, "We have to learn how to own and operate the businesses of our community and develop them into some type of industry that will enable us to create employment for the people of our community so that they won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get a job." This quote affirms that they need to locate jobs for the African Americans because the boycotts were beginning to get out of hand and their companies were losing money. Breitman is stating in the second article that the nation needs to work together as a whole to overcome racism. The two articles written about the economic rights of blacks explain exactly what it was like for the African Americans to live in the U.S. in the