Civil Rights Movement Pros And Cons

YES, the Civil Rights Act is still needed. The only way to chart the future wisely and clearly is for us to be knowledgeable about the roads that got us to the present. In one sense, the civil rights era may seem to be at a end simply because some fundamental values have been challenged resulting in some laws being changed. And yet there is still a lot of work to be done in the area of racial equality. It may be that new minorities are always emerging, but I feel that civil rights work will never end. Furthermore we still have to stretch our minds, so we can embrace the idea that civil rights has exceeded outside of just race, like those who are fighting for their civil rights as gay Americans, disabled Americans, and more. The Civil Rights Movement scratched the surface and has thus led us to a revolution, a fight for civil and human rights. The movement provides us with hope, focus, and an understanding of what lies ahead and at what cost.
JFK coined the term Affirmative Action and stated the following, “ Laws alone cannot make men see right”. He said, “ We are confronted primarily with a moral issue”(Maclean, Freedom Is Not Enough). I agree with JFK …show more content…
Their challenges of non-compliance and enforcement of Title VII brought successes that didn’t come without sacrifice, division, and in some cases physical harm. The allies of these groups have to understand that we the people have to fight as one. We can no longer succumb to the norm of any type of stratification; be it education, occupation, income, gender, disability, sexual orientation or any other way our society chooses to separate and classify us as a society. I think the allies of the groups also have to get back to the grass-root organizing, the three prong approach because if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. This recipe has proven over and over again to bring about