Civil Rights Movement
This article talks about the Civil Rights Movement and how it essentially started. Contrary to popular belief, the Civil Rights Movement didn’t just occur throughout the 1960’s; it dates all the way back to the Civil War. This movement has been an effort to overturn segregation, especially the Jim Crow legislation. The Jim Crow legislation required blacks and whites to use separate facilities, attend different schools, sit in separate section, and be buried in different cemeteries - only four of the many examples of segregation. The more commonly known Civil Rights Movement starts in the 1950s. Schools were officially ordered to desegregate in 1954, and many people were opposed to the idea. The famous Greensboro Sit-In in North Carolina brought attention to the problem and set an example for other blacks across the country. This inspired other sit-ins, and soon more examples of black protesting occurred. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsored The Freedom Riders in 1961 in attempts to desegregate buses, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) helped students take a nonviolent approach to dealing with segregation. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) worked to ensures laws were enforced in a nondiscriminatory manner.
This article relates to my thesis because it provides an overview of what the Civil Rights Movement entailed for black people, and how they had to deal with segregation and discrimination. At this time in America’s history, black people had rights officially, but white people did everything in their power to remain superior, Segregation and discrimination are just two of the ways their superiority was implemented. Since blacks had rights but white people restricted them through segregation laws, their freedoms were limited.
This article relates to my thesis because it provides an overview of what the Civil Rights Movement entailed for black people, and how they had to deal with segregation and discrimination. At this time in America’s history, black people had rights officially, but white people did everything in their power to remain superior, Segregation and discrimination are just two of the ways their superiority was implemented. Since blacks had rights but white people restricted them through segregation laws, their freedoms were limited.