A Brief Note On The Civil Rights Era

Title: The Civil Rights Movement: A Historical Analysis of the Increasing Racial Factors in the Emergence of Intersectional Feminist Theory and Union Organizing for Women of Color

I then described my life and who I was. After describing this, I explained my experiences in confronting racism. The point of the essay was to state that racism is still alive and can be present anywhere. After writing this essay, I learned that my mechanics and style was not where it should be. Even with the revisions Mr. Heldenfels made in the draft, I still made mistakes with mechanics and tense shits. I had written comma splice and has several spelling mistakes. I looked to improve my mechanics after writing this essay.

In 1960, there were tremendous of social ferment that was responsible for agitation and protest. Through direct protest, many African Americans, women, and homosexuals were able to gain recognition and break down the walls of discrimination and segregations. Out of the numerous elements that arose in the 1960s, there are three movements that truly affected the American society. Firstly, the rise of the civil rights movement was greatly influenced by racial discrimination of colored people in the South. Secondly, the women’s movement aimed to convince the society that women are capable of achieving and maintaining higher waged job like males. Lastly, the gay rights movement aimed to gain acceptance and stop discrimination of homosexuality. The most significant effect on the development of American society was the women’s movement and how they expanded their economic and political opportunities. The common goal among African Americans, women’s, and homosexuals was to obtain their equal rights as citizens of America and to desegregate all the boundaries between white and black population.

Social movements are one of the primary means through which the public is able to collectively express their concerns about the rights and wellbeing of themselves and others. Under the proper conditions, social movements not only shed light on issues and open large scale public discourse, but they can also serve as a means of eliciting expedited societal change and progress. Due to their potential impact, studying the characteristics of both failed and successful social movements is important in order to ensure that issues between the public and the government are resolved to limit injustices and maintain societal progress.

My topic centers on civil rights. My research question will be, how did the Crystal city walkouts influence the Chicano movement? I will focus on Mexican American civil rights or as it was called the Chicano movement. The term Chicano is used by Mexican Americans to identify themselves, it is used as a political identity. Mexican Americans came up with this term when felt like they were neither accepted into the Mexican culture nor the American culture. Mexican Americans were considered white yet treated differently. This was documented in the Hernandez v.Texas case where Chicano lawyers fought for equal treatment in court setting and outside.

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time”-Malcolm X. In every movement men and women have crossed paths with others that share their goals, but not everyone shares the same path to achieve it. The civil rights movement of the nineteen fifties and sixties were no different in this case, while many shared the common goal of equality for all, not everyone shared the same style or belief system to achieve it creating sources of conflict within various civil rights organizations as well as between organizations. Freedom activists, Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael sharing the same goal as other civil rights leaders John Lewis

For my research topic I chose “Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws.” I chose this topic because I have heard about Jim Crow Laws many times through television, books, and history classes but never in depth. I wanted to know more about the topic, along with black codes, which I have never heard about and didn’t know existed. Choosing this topic allowed me to gain more knowledge on both of these topics. Before this paper, my knowledge of Jim Crows laws was that they were laws that White Southerners were using to keep former slaves as insubordinates to them. I learned that this is the basic idea and purpose of the Jim Crow laws, but they were also used to prevent complaints and issues, with the separate but equal laws, that said that black were to receive equal, but separate public facilities and buildings. What I wanted to know is how black codes differed from Jim Crow laws. To answer this question I found out the history behind them, the differences and the similarities, and in that, was able to grow as a researcher.

The Civil Rights Movement was a pivotal time in American history, leading us toward the acceptance and advancement of African Americans in society, and eventually the same for other minority groups. The movement as a whole spanned from around the beginning of the 1950’s to around the beginning of the 1970’s. All across the nation, African American people fought for their rights through numerous protests and boycotts. Some notable events are the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, and the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins. Many forms of legislation and many judiciary decisions were made during this era, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1968, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Brown v. Board of Education (“A Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement FOOTSTEPS OF COURAGE”).

Once I figured out what we were actually doing, I enjoyed re-learning a style of writing that I had done only once before. The most difficult part of the Anthem assignment was understanding the new style and learning what a new teacher expected out of each essay project. After lots of peer editing and review that I really enjoyed and found helpful, that essay is finished and completely in the past. The argument paper, even though it is turned in, isn’t really finished because I choose to argue for less standardized testing schools which is a topic that is always changing and developing. I do not think I will add any more to the paper, but I have found myself perking up whenever that topic is mentioned, and continuing to learn more about it just because I have a foundation of it now because of my research for my argument. For me, the most difficult part of an argument paper is always finding successful counterarguments that I can fairly and soundly refute. I usually collect all the information and process it together before coming to a decision, with this paper I had to make a decision and then collect

This was a very interesting and fun topic to write about. I picked this topic because I am inspired by Abraham Lincoln and his job as a president. I felt very excited to do the research because I wanted to learn more about this election and Lincoln. I learned that Abraham Lincoln applied for senator before he became a president. I think the long term influence that my historical topic had on the United States was slavery was stopped and our country was united again. I loved to write and learn more about this

Education of Blacks in the South after Civil War was devastating but not for to long because it was leading up to the Brown vs. Board of Education. As you read this essay you will see all the bad things that blacks were going through to get just a little bit of freedom that they got. You would also see how they were treated differently from whites. Whites had better equipment than blacks, their stuff was all dirty looking. You would also see how whites thought they were better than blacks and that they had more power than them.

My research is about John Brown. Back then when John brown lived their was a lot of slavery and when I say a lot of slavery I mean a lot of slavery. Also during the civil war transportation was marches and horse backs. Back than their were large materials such as cannons and cooking supplies were transported by using horses and wagons. What you will learn in this essay is John Browns death, what major roles he played in the war and many more interesting facts about John Brown.

When starting this project I expected it to be no different than the research papers that I have written for my political science class, but this did not turn out to be the case. The history paper had much more depth and research that I had to do to complete the paper successfully. I accelerate in papers that are of interest to me, which is why I chose my topic. Jim Crow laws are something that we learn about during our whole time in school and I have always wanted to learn more.

In this essay, these are my views on why there are differences in treatment between classes, why African American men are treated worse than Caucasian men.

Looking back at the research paragraph I wrote on The Civil Rights Bill of 1964 to provide background knowledge for To Kill A Mockingbird, I have found that I had many strengths in the writing, while at the same time there are areas I have room to improve. I have quite a few areas that I believe I did an outstanding job with this assignment. I am very pleased with my topic sentence because I find it to be getting to the exact purpose of The Civil Rights Bill of 1964. I believe I did this by creating this topic sentence “The Civil Rights Bill of 1964 marked the beginning of breaking social, political, and work barriers for African Americans and Women,” this sentence clearly introduces the main points of The Civil Rights Bill. Another part of my