Pros And Cons Of The Civil Rights Movement

A simple man from Kentucky taught himself how to read and write, became a lawyer and eventually President. He divided the country and united it again. In one term he built the roadway to rights for African Americans that would eventually become The Civil Rights Movement. This simple man from Kentucky is Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President of these United States. Lincoln was a firm believer in equality and that just as it says in the constitution “all men are created equal” as visible in his Gettysburg Address “Four Score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” He may have been born in the south but has a strong dislike for slavery, believing it to be …show more content…
You either ran away and made it safely to the north, or your owner freed you. Regardless of how you were freed, they could come and recapture you. Although there were systems like the Underground Railroad that helped these slaves escape. After Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation all slaves were free men and women. Even though they gained their freedom they were also discriminated against and segregation was a new adversity. There were separate bathrooms, schools, and even water fountains for white and colored people. This separate but equal policy was the cause of The Civil Rights movement. The Civil Rights movement was the push for the end of white and black segregation, no longer separate but equal, but mixed. The leaders of this movement include Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. Although it would have been much harder for them to cry out for equality without Abraham Lincoln paving the way for the movement. Lincoln was born on February 12th 1809 in Hodgenville Kentucky. Having received meager schooling, Abe taught himself how to read and write from hearing others talk. At the age of twenty one Lincoln set out on his