The twentieth century saw highs and lows in the Civil Right for African Americans in the progressive reform to end racial segregation and discrimination. Through war of legislation- black and white activist work to overcome unjust treatment of African Americans. This paper is about the struggle for equality and successes and pitfalls of the Civil Rights Movement of the twentieth century.
The whites view on freedom was something the African Americans could not tolerate. In the text book “African Americans a Concise History ( Hine, D., Hine, W., & Harrold, 2014 ), Douglas provides information on federal and state levels where the policies of segregation and the role of government that were setup to protect the rights of African Americans …show more content…
These were some of the continuous challenges in the fight of segregation. Thurgood Marshall became the first black judge to serve with the US Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall and other NAACP lawyers won the case, Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, which became a landmark victory in the fight for black citizenship. This victory provides hope and belief that segregation was not unassailable. The Civil Right Act was the law to ban discrimination in school, public places, jobs and many other fields. In the text book Douglas (2014) indicated that the Civil Right Act gave the attorneys general the power to initiate proceeding against segregated facilities and schools on behalf of those who could not do this on their …show more content…
The president (Eisenhower) sent troops to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision confirming the right for blacks to attend school. Another group under Kings leadership that was important as the civil rights organization was the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference). Having the right to vote is not a privilege but the law and should be practice by all blacks. The Voting Act Rights of 1965 gave the African American the right to vote and outlawed the literacy test based on race or
The whites view on freedom was something the African Americans could not tolerate. In the text book “African Americans a Concise History ( Hine, D., Hine, W., & Harrold, 2014 ), Douglas provides information on federal and state levels where the policies of segregation and the role of government that were setup to protect the rights of African Americans …show more content…
These were some of the continuous challenges in the fight of segregation. Thurgood Marshall became the first black judge to serve with the US Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall and other NAACP lawyers won the case, Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, which became a landmark victory in the fight for black citizenship. This victory provides hope and belief that segregation was not unassailable. The Civil Right Act was the law to ban discrimination in school, public places, jobs and many other fields. In the text book Douglas (2014) indicated that the Civil Right Act gave the attorneys general the power to initiate proceeding against segregated facilities and schools on behalf of those who could not do this on their …show more content…
The president (Eisenhower) sent troops to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision confirming the right for blacks to attend school. Another group under Kings leadership that was important as the civil rights organization was the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference). Having the right to vote is not a privilege but the law and should be practice by all blacks. The Voting Act Rights of 1965 gave the African American the right to vote and outlawed the literacy test based on race or