A Trip Through the Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement symbolized the challenge and opposition to the racial injustices and segregation that had been engrained in American society for hundreds of years. Events that took place in the 1950s and 1960s, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, sit-ins, speeches and numerous protests define this momentous time in United States history. Speeches during this period served as a means to inspire and assemble a specific group of people, for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X it was the black community that needed to rise up in hopes of achieving equal rights and voting rights for the blacks.

The Civil Rights Movement occurred in the 1950’s. It’s a movement against segregation and discrimination in the Southern states of America towards the African Americans. Throughout the wars and battles that were fought, African Americans never had equal rights like Caucasians. Caucasians downgraded African Americans due to their skin tone and their intelligence. Since African Americans were not given the same equality like Caucasians, they started to fight for equality. A well- known social activist who participated in the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, took the initiative to fight for equality in America. Martin Luther King delivers a speech about having equal rights for sanitation workers in

“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

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.

The Civil Rights Movement began in order to bring equal rights and equal voting rights to black citizens of the US. This was accomplished through persistent demonstrations, one of these being the Selma-Montgomery March. This march, lead by Martin Luther King Jr., targeted at the disenfranchisement of negroes in Alabama due to the literacy tests. Tension from the governor and state troopers of Alabama led the state, and the whole nation, to be caught in the violent chaos caused by protests and riots by marchers. However, this did not prevent the March from Selma to Montgomery to accomplish its goals abolishing the literacy tests and allowing black citizens the right to vote.

This time period was almost solely based on segregation as whites felt superior to blacks and didn’t want them to have the same rights as whites. Many if not all of the movements were based on prejudice. Prejudice is the thought and feeling of another group based on ethnicity and or race, usually these thoughts are negative. I would imagine some of the people involved considered this to be pluralism as there was the white group and the black group that were distinctly separated. One of the most important and first thought of civil rights movement events is the “I Have a Dream Speech” by Dr. Martin Luther King. This movement was started long before his speech was given and was sourced by many smaller movements. In the mid 1950s, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the “colored section” of the bus to a white passenger, which was in defiance of the southern custom at the time. Ms. Parks was arrested in Montgomery, AL. for her defiance of the custom. This spawned a bus boycott, in which the black community refused to ride the busses for over a year, until the bus system was desegregated late in the year of 1956. Dr. Martin Luther King led the bus boycott as he was the newly elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). Also around this time Dr. King and several other individuals established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which was a major organizer for nonviolent civil rights

The civil rights movement began to influence view about people with disabilities. Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the US supreme court ruled that it was unlawful under the fourteenth amendment to discriminate subjectively against any group of people. The court applied this to the education of children. Soon people with disabilities were acknowledged as another group whose rights had often been dishonored because of discrimination. Pennsylvania Assoc for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth (1972) This case resolved that schools cannot refuse to educate students, free public education must be provided to all students; this resulted in the principle of FAPE. Larry P. v. Wilson Riles (1986) Found that IQ tests cannot be used alone to determine if a student has an intellectual disability, tests cannot be racially biased; this led to the principle of Nondiscriminatory Assessment. Hendrick Hudson S.D. v. Rowley (1982) Found that special education services must deliver an appropriate education this resulted in Individualized education. Daniel R.R. v. State Bd of Ed (1989) Found that appropriate placement for students with disabilities depends on whether a student can be adequately educated in general education, this influenced the principle of LRE. Oberti v. Clementon S.D. (1993) Found that school districts must offer a full range of supports ad amenities and just because a student learns differently doesn’t allow that students exclusion from general education; this became the

The Civil Rights Movement was started Rosa Parks after an incident that changed her life. She was arrested December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. This inspired Rosa parks, Martin Luther King jr, and Booker T. Washington to start an african american freedom movement. Her incident inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott of december 20, 1956. These events led up to the civil rights movement of 1964 and helped kickstart a new way of life for many americans during that time.

America has seen many civil rights movements. Yet, Americans cannot say that every race has gotten the civil rights many races have fought for. African American’s, in particular, have had a very hard time in America. On average a black job seeker must put in 15 applications to get a call back while whites only have to put in 10. This alone shows that America has not moved as far forward in civil and racial rights as some would like to think. To top that, African AMerican women are stereotyped and Sexualized. Due to the color of their skin, they are forced into a society who sees them for nothing more than sex and a “nice body”. Black women have to fight so much harder to live happily in American society due to the stereotypes that hang over their heads everyday. Not only are the stereotyped and sexualized, the tend to be forced into more promiscuous jobs, such as stripping or prostitution. Roughly 75 percent of the prostitution population, in Chicago alone, are black females. While 55 percent are young children, primarily young girls. Black are thrown into gangs and sex crimes due to the way they were shown how to live. They were not integrated into society as they should have been. Thus, showing that America has not come very far in Civil and racial rights.

While the Civil Rights Movement has been going on ever since Reconstruction it wasn’t till Brown v. The Board of Education that it really started to make progress. The court case was a huge victory for the civil rights but the court only said it had to be done “with all deliberate speed". This meant that even though schools had to be desegregated you could take time to do it and many states took years to finally take care of this problem. Overall this as well as the little rock nine helped desegregate many schools starting a push of equality in the movement. The next big event followed after the event of the Rosa Parks incident in Montgomery. This started boycotts across the nation because of segregated transportation. This as well as lunch counter sit ins were done across the nation starting the movement and a large following. Many people were jailed for these demonstrations to scare protesters from continuing to support the events. With many whites against the idea of segregation protest some violent counter acted the movement. Freedom riders and peaceful protest also helped to show america the problems of segregation and helped to finally end it. These people also followed Martin Luther King in the March on Washington where he gave his famous speech. The people of the Civil Rights Movement were the main reason

The Civil Rights Movement was an era in time where nonviolent protests shook the core of the South’s Jim Crow laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s. African Americans and a few white people were fighting for equal rights since the beginning of the Reconstruction Era. The main objective during the Civil Rights Movement was to dismantle racial segregation in public places and to stop discrimination against African Americans. African Americans were fed up with being denied their rights as American citizens, mistreatment was heavily practiced in the South through their laws and legal actions. The Civil Rights movement was completely necessary because it challenged laws made to enforce segregation and also for the nation to face the ill treatment of African Americans.

The civil rights movement began in Dec, 1, 1955 when rosa parks refused to move from the bus to the back seat. Rosa parks was a big start in modern civil rights movement because she stood up for something she believe she thought was wrong. Civil rights is a big problem in modern and and back then. Civil rights is also a problem problem today with are new presedent Donald Trump. It is a big problem in are world today it was a problem then and now.

The civil rights movement, which took place from the year 1954-1968, had a major impact on America and an even more impact on the blacks who lived in America. The civil rights act began in 1955 and it consisted of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience which produced a lot of violent and hostile situations between the activists and government authorities such as policemen

It all started in the tiny town of Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955 when an African-American women named Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus and was arrested. (Troy,2010) That one act started a ten plus year long movement. The movement that changed everyone's life and a lot of different people from different backgrounds and lifestyles took part in it. The Civil Rights Movement goal was to stop segregation and for everyone to have equal rights. We all know about MLK and Rosa Parks but there was several other people who took part in the movement to have the outcome we have today. (Conatore,2016)

The civil rights movement began in 1955 and took place in Montgomery, Alabama according to McDougal Littell in his book “American History”. It all started when a girl named Rosa Parks decided to ride a bus with white people. She was told to give up her seat to a white person but, she did not obey. Parks was arrested and because of this incident the civil rights movement began. (Little, 877). A protest was started and it was the Montgomery bus boycott. African Americans were tired of the way they were being treated and were determined to make a change.