The African-American Social Movement

Mobilization is an act of gathering and organizing people for an action, in this case, overthrow of the injustice system. Under prejudice and mistreatment, the black American got together and formed a larger campaign, a campaign that united the power of the weakest, instruct each of the participants the next right and effective social movement to reach their common goal, furthermore, the effect of the movements ultimately influence the status of Black American across the nation. In December of the 20th in 1936, nearly a dozen of Black Seventh Ward residents died in a collapse of a poorly managed tenement. The urgency of the housing reform in Seventh Ward neighborhood became pressing. Social movements were initiated spontaneously and formed …show more content…
Sometimes one social movement encourages more social movement, but sometimes, it affects the black community and advance the political and social status as a whole. “These conceptions of voting and mobilization as they pertain to black Philadelphians are…… urban black neighborhoods represent substantial points within the larger nexus constituting the ‘black community,’ containing important indigenous resources that are mobilized or demobilized for political ends.” (Hunter, p.14) During the period of time when Philadelphians were outraged and formed social organization to confront against the city’s action, what they have achieved was not only the awareness of insufficient water supply or toilet facilities in the Seventh Ward region, but the awareness of all the living condition of black resident of the United Stated. The progresses of housing acts were quickening by the echo of social awareness and social movement. The boycotting of buses started in the black community of Baton Rouge during the 1953 had an unprecedented success that the New York Times confirmed black passengers who refused to ride the buses during the boycott has reach at least 90 percent. (Morris, 18) One idea of a social organization of black communities can develop into a movement which most of the African American participated in. …show more content…
African American have come a long journey to the current stage. From unorganized second class citizens with the urge to change their status and the society’s system to powerful organized campaign, African American gain their bargaining power with the society by mobilization and overthrew the morally wrong, pure evil and injustice