Civil Right Movement Research Paper

Martin Luther King Jr was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He was sent to Birmingham Jail during the movement because of his involvement. During this time, he got alot of bad press. As a response, he wrote a well-written peaceful letter.The letter informs the audience that his use of the strategy of nonviolent resistance is an appropriate response to racism. He is saying that people in that time have a moral responsibility to help in the breaking of unjust laws. He wants people to take direct action instead of just waiting forever for justice to happen by itself. He used Biblical allusions in his letter because of his loyalty to God. In this paper I will talk about his references.

In the early 1830s, becoming an active abolitionist required courage. Many had to face physical danger at the hand of a mob, but many more had to endure the disapproval of family and friends or the ridicule of neighbors. All of them shared a motivating vision of slavery as a moral evil that could not be justified.

“The atmosphere is an unhealthy but this time its not a typical ugly political season, its highly charged, damaging, immoral and divisive. People have been brainwashed and chose their party over the country. Republicans played the race card and forced people to take sides. The message is clear, their civilization leader is Trump a barbarian, fascist, racist, fraud criminal, hypocrite, hate-monger, phony, lunatic and a sexual Predator. And now, the responsibility is on us to continue the mission of our great civil rights activists and leaders. Men and women will stand up again because we live by our principles, values and ethics.”

Equal Employment Opportunity was fabricated in the historic Civil Rights of 1964. This Act was an omnibus bill addressing not only discrimination in service, but also discrimination in voting, public accommodations, and scholarship as well. The regulation was forged in an atmosphere of urgency. There was developing unrest in the country emanating from the powerful and appalling racial discrimination and segregation exposed during the civil rights protests in the 1960’s. Civil rights fought was played out in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama and other southern cities and because of television viewed by America. During the spring of 1963, the universe watched as demonstrators were beaten, attacked by police dogs, sprayed with high pressure water

It was just a single line in a speech given more than fifty years ago, yet many still remember it as one of the most important turning points in Southern political history and the American civil right movement. As many civil rights activists were fighting for the abolishment of Jim Crow laws, newly elected Governor George Wallace stood at the podium under the Alabama State House to deliver his inaugural speech which would later cement his legacy amongst the most controversial figures in Southern history. His infamous line, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever”, represents the pinnacle of the southern struggle between pride and blame (Wallace). To some, George Wallace was an unabashed racist who was the embodiment of white supremacy and opposition toward the civil rights movement in the South. To others, he was a brave fighter for states’ rights amidst one of the most difficult transition periods in the South. Regardless of one’s personal opinions about Gov. Wallace, his influence on many of the themes covered in this course such as the transformation of Southern politics, race relations, and ideals cannot be undermined. The Alabamian stood at the center stage of the southern civil rights movement where his fierce rhetoric and the subsequential outburst of racial violence and anger were forever seared in the region’s memory. By studying George Wallace and his inaugural speech, one can trace the roots and evolution of southern ideals and politics

Prior to World War II, black people in the United States (especially in the rural south) lived in poverty and suffered greatly from racial inequality. “Most African Americans lived in the South and worked on farms under a newly developed rule of society known as Jim Crow. Under this system, blacks had their votes restricted by white primaries, literacy tests, and poll taxes; they were segregated from whites” (Johnson). Black people faced major segregation in nearly every venue of life. Under Jim Crow laws, blacks were forced to use separate public facilities such as water fountains and bathrooms as well as hotels and restaurants. In most, if not all cases, the facilities offered to the black

The Civil Rights Era was a time when many people with different ethnic backgrounds fought for what they believed in. When one thinks about the Civil Rights movements, the groups of people that automatically come to mind are the African-Americans. However, the Blacks were not the only race to stand up for their rights. Other cultures and groups such as the Hispanics, women, Indians, youth, and the LGBT community all supported their backgrounds and fought for equality. The Civil Rights Era caused a drastic change in the United States.

The Civil Rights Movement was from 1955 until 1968 and during this time a policy was developed and implemented due to the unjust discrimination and treatment of African American citizens in the United States, the policy is known as Affirmative Action. The first known use of Affirmative Action was in Executive Order No.10925, an order that was signed on March 6, 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. This new policy allowed African American citizens under circumstances of duress or other special situations of discrimination to overcome this obstacle, thus leveling the playing field in American society for African Americans. The main argument that had to be taken into consideration was that African American people were first brought to the United

Enslavement of African people has precise steps that must be different from Historical moments. From the fifteenth century going into the early 1600s, the trend to enslave African spiked reaching its peak in the eighteenth century. at least 30 Million brought as slaves to and maybe 14 Million Through the Indian Ocean. Over 80 Million Africans are a part of Modern and Contemporary Slave trade. Summing up the deaths in wars and slave ships. The classifications on groups "upper" and "lower" was the beginning of racist evolution. Theorist like Darwin and Gobineau, looked down on blacks and had them at the bottom of the scale.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that there were only three characteristic ways that oppressed people dealt with oppression. One way is acquiescence, another was resorting to physical violence, and the final way was nonviolence resistance. Oppression was something all African Americans dealt with during the times of racial turmoil in the United States. It was something many different groups grappled with throughout the world and King believed everyone responded to it, even if they weren't aware that the way they were. People who are oppressed often react to that oppression with violence.

“Blacks had struggled for their freedom in Mississippi since the earliest days of slavery and continue to fight for their fights as citizens down to the present.” (423) John Dittmer’s Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi uncovers the origins of black suffrage within the state and continues through the historic Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s in America. While many books have been written on this topic, Local People tells a different story. Rather than focusing on the national movement and its personalities, Dittmer chooses to emphasis the importance and sacrifices of the local, African-American activists who fought for equality in Mississippi during this turbulent period of American history. The result is a fascinating and groundbreaking study of the local Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, one that will engage its readers and hopefully change the way historians view the movement. Fittingly titled, Dittmer’s book masterly tells the story of local black Mississippians and their desire to overcome the American caste system which had accompanied them since slavery.

As society redevelops as we go further and further into the 21st century, Society itself, progresses to keep up with the ever-changing dynamics of its citizens on a daily basis. Social movements are popping up all over the world today as an outlet to hopefully bring change within the law. Social movement is a broad term that many people hear from media sources, they have specific goals and targets in mind, in which they have a specific outcome that they are hoping to desire. They are collective groups that seek a common goal or express a common identity; targets that may include states, society, corporations, and or social norms and values.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr retorts a statement made against him first by explaining why he is in Birmingham Alabama. He explains what a nonviolent protest is and why he did it; also the timing behind the protest. A just law is morally right, and an unjust law is morally wrong; one cannot be asked to follow an unjust law. White moderates who care more about order than justice, they would rather have absence of tension rather than the presence of justice, are very harmful to racial equality. The time for African American’s to crave their freedom has come, which

The civil rights movement also called the African-American civil rights movement comprises a social movement in the United States of America (USA).

By 1966, black protest involved the whole nation. They demanded legal equality and economic justice. Since the 1930s, African Americans have campaigned and fought for decent jobs, housing, and education in places outside of the South because they believed in equality. African Americans began to think that there was no hope for racism in the North and the black freedom struggle was beginning to be a bigger threat than the white race.