Ahh… the civil rights movement, one of the best, but messiest moments in American history. African Americans were mistreated. They were left out or separated from white people on many fronts. If they didn’t obey the segregation, they would inherit the second problem, violence. Violence… is pretty self explanatory. After that, the government finally realized that this mayhem was too much. They changed the law, and the violence and segregation in the South came to an end.
One cause of the civil rights movement is the direct segregation or discrimination, where there were like white only bars, stores, windows. The buses were a big problem. They were fuel for much controversy. If a black person got on the bus and paid for their ticket, sometimes, the bus driver would drive away to express a held grudge and they could do nothing about it. Also, if they were …show more content…
Many white people were violent towards African Americans. Examples of this include, from Leon’s story, The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) would prowl around at night looking to seriously injure or murder people and plant burning crosses in people’s yards. Also, from Leon’s story, when they went to peacefully protest, they had to wear tubes around themselves, so they weren’t murdered in the streets. At one point, when Leon was doing an odd job for a man who owned a restaurant, two German Sheps were released on Leon with intent to kill.
The effect of this act is freedom. The laws were changed and taken into effect. After frequent violent protests, laws were finally enforced. The constitution was already changed in the 1800s, but they were never enforced. After the civil rights movement, it was law for police to enforce the 13th amendment. After that, segregation was not a thing anymore. It wasn’t done, for there were criminal consequences for that. But now, in the last couple of years there has been police segregation, which we are trying to abolish as we
One cause of the civil rights movement is the direct segregation or discrimination, where there were like white only bars, stores, windows. The buses were a big problem. They were fuel for much controversy. If a black person got on the bus and paid for their ticket, sometimes, the bus driver would drive away to express a held grudge and they could do nothing about it. Also, if they were …show more content…
Many white people were violent towards African Americans. Examples of this include, from Leon’s story, The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) would prowl around at night looking to seriously injure or murder people and plant burning crosses in people’s yards. Also, from Leon’s story, when they went to peacefully protest, they had to wear tubes around themselves, so they weren’t murdered in the streets. At one point, when Leon was doing an odd job for a man who owned a restaurant, two German Sheps were released on Leon with intent to kill.
The effect of this act is freedom. The laws were changed and taken into effect. After frequent violent protests, laws were finally enforced. The constitution was already changed in the 1800s, but they were never enforced. After the civil rights movement, it was law for police to enforce the 13th amendment. After that, segregation was not a thing anymore. It wasn’t done, for there were criminal consequences for that. But now, in the last couple of years there has been police segregation, which we are trying to abolish as we