The Importance Of Life During The Civil Rights Movement

Proximately 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Colored Americans in Southern states still had a blunt unequal world of segregation and sundry forms of oppression, including race-influenced brutality. “Jim Crow” laws at the local and verbalize levels barred them from schools and restrooms, from theaters and certain transportation, from courts and constitutional rights. In 1954, the high court established the “separate but equal” law that composed the substratum for state-approved segregation, bringing international and national awareness to African Americans’ struggle. In the unstable decade and a moiety that followed, civil rights activists used peaceful protests and civil incompliance to establish change, and the federal regime made legislative improvement with actions such as the 1965 Voting Rights and the 1968 Civil Rights Act. …show more content…
They endangered themselves—and sometimes lost—their lives in the designation of liberation and parity.
My grandparents were at the ages of seventeen and eighteen when the Civil Rights campaign commenced. They spoke of how it was deplorable for the …show more content…
I learned about how life was for my grandparents from their personal perspectives during the Civil Rights era. In addition I also learned how rough life was for them and now understand why they do not hesitate to thank God daily. I enjoyed the interview, it gave me an inspirational insight on life and how grateful I should be to have all the opportunities that I have today. I will always recollect this interview, if life seem to get rough this alone will give the motivation to keep striving for success and to let nothing hold me back from pursuing my