The Civil Rights Movement In The 1970's

We studied many social movements throughout the course including those of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s such as: the black civil rights movement, new “women’s rights movement, the gay rights movement, the environmental movement, the antiwar movement. The Civil Rights Movement was a movement started in the 1950s to end segregation. This movement was helped blacks and white have equal rights. To have equal rights a lot of blood had to be shed and a lot of people had to suffer.
The Civil Rights Movement was more popular and more people Joined it after the death of a fourteen-year-old in 1955 called Emmett Till. Emmett was murdered after a white lady told her husband that Emmett was whistling at her. It took many decades until 2017 for the white lady to confess that she had lied. Despite him being innocent, Emmett Till had to suffer by being murdered in his teens and not living life, but even though he died, he was one of the causes the Civil Rights Movement kept going at the start.
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The schools being funded by the government, and the government being mostly whites meant that the white schools had a better education system. A lot of sit-ins were taking place; without any violence from their part, the blacks and their supporters would go into school cafeterias, sit and not leave. The blacks and many others did not want segregated schools. The case that changed this was The Brown Versus Board of Education in Kansas in 1954, the case said that “segregation in schools violates the constitution’s believe in ‘equal rights.’” So it led to the banned of school segregation. This case helped the black community get into white schools where they had a better education system. And also helped the little nine rock students go to a white high school in Arkansas. Before Brown vs Board of Education, the blacks had to suffer a lot since they wanted to be in school, so they had sit-ins, which led to many going to