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The Civil Rights Movement was inevitable because any time a errors is deprived of the basic rights and dignities guaranteed to any human then there will be a day of reckoning. When laws are outdated and discriminatory in nature and basic rights and services are denied to a person because of the color of their skin or religious or ethnic background then a revolutionary movement has to come about to change the system. I will look at what caused the Civil Rights movement and how it changed our society.
I will also look at the key players of the Civil Rights movement and what laws were enacted to fix the system. Will also look at whether the Civil Rights event was successful in all areas an whether all men are truly created equal or whether prejudices is still alive and well. I am currently Irving around the country with my husband and we are currently in South Haven Mississippi which is about thirty minutes outside of Memphis Tennessee.
This area is considered to be the worst offenders of Civil Rights violations and was at the heart of the movement. Picked this social movement because recently attended the re-opening of the National Civil Rights museum after a multi- million dollar renovation here in Memphis Tennessee and was very moved ND educated on the struggle of the African Americans who were active participants of the Civil Rights movement. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 3 CIVIL RIGHTS CAUSES One of the biggest causes of the Civil Rights Movement is something as simple as geographic.
At the turn of the twentieth century most of the African American population lived in the southern states in rural areas, but all of this changed after WWW where more and more African Americans moved into northern urban areas such as New York, Chicago and Detroit. The Arbitration of the African American population gave the African American population a feeling of self-worth and demanded to be treated with respect.
They worked in various manufacturing jobs and realized that these manufacturing job paid more than farming and there was a mass exodus of African Americans to the north for employment. With these jobs more and more African Americans joined Unions and with numbers came strength. In WI a large amount of African Americans were drafted. After fighting for freedom and democracy abroad they realized that they didn’t have these particular rights at home in the United States. Taking their cue from Unions
African Americans started establishing organizations to further the rights of African Americans. Groups such as the National Advancement for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Urban League and militant organizations such as the Black Panthers. Jim Crow laws in the south played a big part in spurring on the Civil Rights movement because African Americans were treated like second class citizens. They couldn’t eat in restaurants that were for whites only and they couldn’t stay in hotels or drink out of certain water fountains because they were segregated.
They were refused rights that e take for granite such as equal protection under the law and were blatantly discriminated against in all areas such as CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 4 CIVIL RIGHTS CAUSES (COUNT) Employment and pay and were constantly under attack from such groups as the ASK and other so called citizens organizations. African Americans were hanged and their houses burned down by angry white mobs and were never brought to justice.
They were often prohibited from voting and the low quality of education in segregated African American schools led to such court cases as Brown v The Board of Education. The constant injustices heaped upon African Americans finally led them to take action and the Civil Right Movement began. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS also was influenced to write a paper on the Civil Rights Movement because of my time that I spent in Memphis Tennessee and my visit to the Loraine Motel where the National Civil Rights Museum is located and where Martin Luther King Jar was assassinated.
We all have heard of such Civil Rights leaders as Martin Luther King Jar. , Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglas but there is many more leaders of the movement that should be remembered. Civil Right Leaders such as James Farmer co-founder of C. O. R. E. (Congress of racial equality) and part of Martin Luther King Jar. Inner circle and helped organize the Freedom Rides John Lewis who helped form the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee (S. N. C. C. ).
He helped plan and spoke at the March on Washington in 1964 as well as led marchers across the Edmund Pettish Bridge in Selma CIVIL RESETTLEMENT 5 CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS (COUNT) Alabama and were sequentially attacked by state troopers and became known as “Bloody Sunday’. African American Civil Rights Leaders such as A. Philip Randolph are not as well-known but impacted the movement greatly. He Organized the first all-black union Of Sleeping Car porters in 1925 which let African Americans know that they have power when organized and come together for a cause.
Roy Wilkins was also another civil right leader who had a big impact on the movement. He was a leader for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1 931 to 1977. He was also responsible in overturning the Separate but Equal law for education in the Supreme Court. He was also vital in pushing for the 1 964 Civil Rights Act. Also advisor to President Lyndon B Johnson, Whitney Young was responsible for a lot of the anti-poverty legislation passed in the 1 ass’s.
There is also others who sacrificed their lives for the cause such as Meager Veers who was killed by the ASK while working with the NAACP in recruiting drives and voter drives in Mississippi. Many other people lost their lives and many others toiled endlessly for the Civil Rights Movement but Meager Veers murder was responsible for a increase in grass root efforts for Civil Rights which helped in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which basically outlawed coordination of any kind based on color race or religion etc…