The Civil Rights Movement was a long hard fight that was eventually won. The movement was a way to end segregation and discrimination against African Americans. They got there using many different strategies, that worked, and gained support of the presidents and government.
There were a few different strategies adopted by the civil rights leaders. They used marches, boycotts and sit-ins. The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on December 1, 1955. Blacks decided that they would boycott city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted. The first sit-in really had no effect. ON February 1, 1960 4 students went into the F.W. Woolworth company store in Greensboro, NC and purchased school supplies. They then went to the lunch counter …show more content…
In June of 1963 Kennedy addressed the national television audience, after Governor Wallace’s show of resistance to desegregation of the state university, and called for a federal civil rights law. It would mainly prohibit racial segregation in the public accommodations. The civil rights bill staled after his assassination and his successor Lyndon Johnson signed a bill into law, in 1964, that included a job-discrimination title and authorized creation of a new agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The goals of the March on Washington were: meaningful civil rights laws, a massive federal works program, full and fair employment, decent housing, the right to vote and adequate integrated education. The successes that we achieved were they had the support of the government President Johnson passed the Civil Right Act of 1964 that gave equality to blacks. Although schools were still segregated until 1970. In August of 1965 Congress passed the Voting Rights act that gave blacks the right to …show more content…
It became less interracial and less committed to nonviolence. Five days after LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act looting and burning began in a black neighborhood known as Watts in Los Angeles. Other riots followed and it exposed the rage of blacks outside the south. Rapid splintering along racial lines harmed the movement as well. Stokely Carmichael of the black militants called for Black Power. Black Power was prominent in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s emphasizing racial pride. They forced whites from positions in CORE and SNCC and distanced themselves for the nonviolence King had wanted. Carmichael felt the movement wasn’t just for desegregation but a movement to help end how American racism weakened
There were a few different strategies adopted by the civil rights leaders. They used marches, boycotts and sit-ins. The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on December 1, 1955. Blacks decided that they would boycott city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted. The first sit-in really had no effect. ON February 1, 1960 4 students went into the F.W. Woolworth company store in Greensboro, NC and purchased school supplies. They then went to the lunch counter …show more content…
In June of 1963 Kennedy addressed the national television audience, after Governor Wallace’s show of resistance to desegregation of the state university, and called for a federal civil rights law. It would mainly prohibit racial segregation in the public accommodations. The civil rights bill staled after his assassination and his successor Lyndon Johnson signed a bill into law, in 1964, that included a job-discrimination title and authorized creation of a new agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The goals of the March on Washington were: meaningful civil rights laws, a massive federal works program, full and fair employment, decent housing, the right to vote and adequate integrated education. The successes that we achieved were they had the support of the government President Johnson passed the Civil Right Act of 1964 that gave equality to blacks. Although schools were still segregated until 1970. In August of 1965 Congress passed the Voting Rights act that gave blacks the right to …show more content…
It became less interracial and less committed to nonviolence. Five days after LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act looting and burning began in a black neighborhood known as Watts in Los Angeles. Other riots followed and it exposed the rage of blacks outside the south. Rapid splintering along racial lines harmed the movement as well. Stokely Carmichael of the black militants called for Black Power. Black Power was prominent in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s emphasizing racial pride. They forced whites from positions in CORE and SNCC and distanced themselves for the nonviolence King had wanted. Carmichael felt the movement wasn’t just for desegregation but a movement to help end how American racism weakened