Civil Rights

in the U.S. People were mean to the slaves. Then there was a civil war, north against the south, the north won the battle. The north made slavery illegal. The black people that were slaves were emancipated and set free. Then more down the line, there were jim crow laws that were made. These law made black people have to use different drinking fountain, restroom, and table in restaurants ect. Activists used, during the civil rights movement, multiple strategies that resulted in both…

African Americans from whites, in other words the integration of the two races, and the ability for African Americans to vote. These goals were complete, the goals of the civil rights movement, but the major goal of the movement, the goal of true equality was still not achieved. The Civil RIghts act of 1964 was passed and the voting rights of 1965 was achieved, the movement brought to light to all the American people and the world the horrors…

In the following of the Civil War, Americans had no real option except to contemplate questions concerning race, rights, and power, that stays ongoing up until the present time. The primary issues were the means by which to bring the former Confederate states back into the Union and how to secure the freedom of previous slaves. The Reconstruction prompted the civil rights movement, about a century later. It also shaped and formed some of our most vital laws and establishments. It constructed the…

acquire social liberties for dark Americans have had exceptional chronicled hugeness. Such developments have secured citizenship rights for blacks as well as re-imagined winning originations of the idea of social equality and the part of government in ensuring these rights. The most imperative accomplishments of African-American social liberties developments have been the post-Civil War protected alterations that canceled subjection and built up the citizenship status of blacks and the legal…

there has been racism which caused the civil war. Once the Union won. The slaves were finally ”free”. Even still they were not equal. The Jim Crow laws were a set of laws that separated bathrooms, drinking fountains schools And the military they justified the laws by saying they were equal when in reality they were the opposite. Activists used, during the Civil Rights movement, multiple strategies that resulted in both successes and failures. During the Civil Rights they used speeches to argue…

Both the civil rights movements share similarities in regard to their purpose. One reason why the civil rights movement began during the Reconstruction Era and during the 1960s was to gain rights for African Americans. Before the Reconstruction Era civil rights movement, most African Americans were slaves. Slaves were not seen as people in the southern states, instead they were seen as property of the slave master. The fact that the black man was previously seen as property and not a person…

Horrendous Civil Disputes Throughout history civil rights has been a controversial dispute without a vision of it ending. The battle of civil rights affects everyone, everywhere. There is no escape. A modern example of the struggle in civil rights is presented by Liu Xiaobo. From an impeccable writer winning the Nobel Prize, he was imprisoned because of protests in a civil rally, or in other words because of his freedom of speech. Breaking the first amendment in the United States Constitution…

type of man that he would grow up to be. On May 19,1925, in Omaha Nebraska, a Civil Rights activist was born. That Civil Rights activist was named Malcolm Little. Malcolm's father was an activist himself during his time, and he was an honest baptist minister. The Ku Klux Klan despised his father’s activism and made threats to him and his family. The Klu Klux Klan was a hate organization that was created after the Civil War that consisted of white supremacist that had a great loath for african…

Both movements took place during a rise of progressive movements. Most feminists in the 1800s were also abolitionists. Similarly, second-wave feminism took place during the Civil Rights Movement. The rise of progressivism during both of these time periods “helped create a climate where injustice could be challenged.” 8 Furthermore, “activist states with a concern for social welfare are most likely to enact women’s suffrage” 9…

segregation and oppression. In the decade and a half that followed, civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change. Many leaders from the African American community became dominant during the Civil rights era. They risked their lives for freedom and equality. This movement had roots of African slaves and their descendants to resist and abolish slavery. American slaves were granted the civil rights through the passage of the fourteenth and fifteenth…