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What is the civil rights movement?

The American Civil Rights Movement was a political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States. The movement has its origins in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century, although it made its largest legislative gains in the mid-1960s after years of direct actions and grassroots protests. The social movement’s major nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience campaigns eventually secured new protections in federal law for the civil rights of all Americans.

The end of the American Civil war in 1864 effectively meant it ended slavery but , African Americans were in for a long struggle before they were awarded equal rights. After 1870, all male were allowed to vote. However African Americans were discouraged by violence & eventually legal stipulations.

What are some examples of civil rights?

Examples of civil rights include the right to vote, the right to a fair trial, the right to government services, the right to a public education, and the right to use public facilities.

Which led to the rights movement?

In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled to maintain racial segregations in private organizations, It caused an application of Jim Crow laws. As a result African Americans were treated as second class citizens. Set apart schools for all ages, both races separated from each other, including public transportation & public restrooms, they weren’t even allowed to eat, or sleep around the white Americans. It had gone on into the 1990s.

In 1909, a leading group of black & white campaigners created the national association of the advancement of colored people called NAACP. Their goal was to increase racial equality & change issues like the Jim Crow laws. Unfortunately it was between 1910 & 1930 what the supersets group the Ku Klux Clan raised to its biggest expansions & increase racial friction, following the first world war the NAACP was dedicated to ended the lynching by white vigilantes by mid-century, the group became instrumental in a famous class action suit filed in 1951 which was Brown Vs the bored of education of Topeka., They asked segregation in schools to be taken down, Taken to the supreme court the case resulted in the first integrated school in the United states to have been opened in the end of 1955. By this decision, the civil rights movement began to have high profile boycotts, marches, sit-ins & more peaceful protests.

Activists of the movement for rights

These include the famous Rosa Parks with the Montgomery support on the bus boycott. By 1962 the universities also began to integrate African Americans but weren’t welcomed as an equal as they should have been, but with the support of John F. Kennedy & his brother Attorney General, Robert Kennedy.

As JFK Said “ a Great changed at hand, & our task, our obligation is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful & constructive for all’ On June 19, 1963, He proposed a civil rights bill to congress, which was approved in 1964 after his tragic death was support from president Lyndon Johnson. The bill stuck existing legislation that allowed for discrimination & its approval was largely influenced by Martin Luther King Jr. & the march in Washington in August 1963. In M.L.K speech “ With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

That march & speech made a lot of influence. Following that, the voting rights act of 165 ended the prejudiced voting system. Life was still a little bit difficult for the africans Americans,which followed the principles of Malcolm X came in, rising in to be heard in the 1950”s, has rascal idea advocated militancy for African Americans, too his words precisely “ black people are dissatisfied, They’re not only with the white man, but dissatisfied they’re dissatisfied with these negroes who have been sitting around posing as leaders & spokesman for black people & actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better. He remained a huge influential & conversional human rights activist until his assignation in 1965.

The murders of civil rights leaders continued when Martin Luther King Jr, was killed in April 196 & Robbert Kennedy two months after. Despite racial tensions continuing into the 1990”s, progress has been measurable. The election of president Obama in 2008 has been seen by a lot to be the culmination of centuries of work in favor of racial equality. president Obama exact words “ This is the meaning of our liberty & our creed why men & women & children of every race & every faith can join in the celebration across this magnificent & why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at the local restaurants can now stand before you take most sacred oath.