What Is The Impact Of The Civil Rights Movement

This paper will examine the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and how it leads to the end of Jim Crow. In its aftermath, there was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and different forms of social control were placed in to multiple systems, the forms of social control that were the most outstanding are African Americans are still subject to three methods of social control: redlining; educational inequality; and mass incarceration. This means the areas where it was most prevalent were education, social work, and policing and the law, and can be seen in the readings of “Statement to the Boston School Committee June 11, 1963” and “Letter to Birmingham Jail” that show just how much impact the legacy of Jim Crow had upon the African American community. In the beginning of the 1960’s America saw the rise of the Civil Rights Movement. A huge impediment to this, however, were the Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow Law is the term used to describe the different …show more content…
Mass incarceration is the way that African-American have been thrown in to the criminal justice system and be given the label of criminal and detained for more years than necessary and then thrown out without certain rights, such as voting, to essentially end any chance of living a life in them (Childress, 2016). This has drastic effects on the community as the young men in the community view prison as the inevitable end and thus always keep that in mind while making decisions and then once they get out it is hard for them to get a job and support not only their community but also their families It would lead to as Martin Luther King Jr. said, see the “depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form” and “distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people” (Luther King Jr., 1963). This also has a direct effect on the next area of social control, the education system in the United States after the