The Struggle For Black Equality Analysis

“The Struggle for Black Equality” by Harvard Sitkoff, summarizes the key elements in the fight for the civil rights of African Americans from 1954-1980. The book was set up in chronological order, each chapter embodying the new step to gain equality. The first chapter is titled “Up from slavery,” it consists of the small actions that took place slowly to assure the equal rights. By the end of the first chapter, the concept of equal rights was introduced more prominently, opening people's eyes to the problem. Nevertheless, there was still doubt in the system and people who did not agree.The next few chapters the improvement in the way African Americans were treated was more outstanding and visible. In the end of the book, the author states that “black improvement came because of an expanding economy.” He explains that there were no whites affected in bringing equality, but it still took so many years to assure the appropriate civil rights of African American. The book ends with an optimistic tone, he foreshadows that African Americans will get complete freedom and equal rights, and that the actions they took to make it happen would be worth it eventually. …show more content…
board of education case, which resulted in school integration, which would mix whites and blacks into one school. This started America’s path to equality. The result of this case took a long time to be announced because Congress did not want it to bring out rebellion. When more and more schools were becoming mixed with white and blacks, they had to pass the “pupil placement law,” which restricted authorities from considering race when assigning kids to