Civil Rights And Social Integration Of African Americans

Both the African American integrationist movement and Black Power movement had common goals such as ending racial injustice towards African Americans and advocating civil rights for African Americans in the United States. Yet, the ideologies of the two movements and how they went about accomplishing their goals was drastically different. While the integrationist movement relied on concepts such as Christian Universalism and Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA), the Black Power movement relied on more explicit means such as direct action and mobilization with violence if necessary. In general however, it seems that both movements had well-defined overarching ideologies. For the integrationist movement, Non-Violence was the key to successful integration.

The Great Migration was a massive movement of African Americans from the South to the North from 1863 to 1960. The largest spike in this migration occurred from about 1910 to 1920.

The Chicago race riots of 1919 were one of the darkest moments in our nations history. But something so terrible does not just happen over night, in fact the reason for this riot began with the Great Migration around 1910. The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African-Americans from the rural south into the urban north. Of those 6 million African-Americans traveling to the north 500,000 of them went to Chicago 's South Side. The African-American population thought they were going to a better situation by escaping the apartheid practices of Jim Crow. However they were taken advantage of and seen as new competition to the northern white population. Nine years later during the summer of 1919, two years after World War I ended, the American society suffered from a racial tension that it has never seen before. The racial tension brewed from the demobilization of black and white

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 1960s was a time for change. It promoted on going expectations of equality for all races. This proved to be difficult for minorities. In August of 1965, civil unrest broke out, which lead to six-day revolt called the Watts Riot. Nearly thirty years later another riot broke out which caused even greater damage and left an even greater impact in our history, the Rodney King Riots. Both of these events share similar qualities and devastating damages, however, their meanings are much harder to decipher from one another. These impactful events in our society demonstrate how much there needs to change in our society, especially when dealing with minorities.

The Great Migration was a huge relocation of African Americans from the Southern states of the United States to northern and Midwestern cities. This occurred between the years of 1910 and 1970. Over 6 million African Americans traveled to Northern cities during the migration. Some northern city destinations were Richmond, D.C, Baltimore, New York, and Newark. Western and Midwestern destinations were those such as Los Angelos, San Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago, and Detroit. During this time period and previous years, Jim Crow laws in the South were greatly in affect and causing African Americans a rough time due to the racism they faced. After Reconstruction had ended, white supremacy had taken it's toll in the South and Jim Crow had

The L.A. Riots is one of the massive riots in american history. The riots were caused by the injustice beating of Rodney King by four officers. To put it in perspective, the riots happened because of racism by jury and officers. I watched a sundance film trailer about the L.A. Riots and how koreans were affected by the riots. After watching the trailer, I decided to do research and I learned about the deep details of how the riots happened. The L.A. Riots changed my morals on how people can be proved guilty or innocent so easily, plus my perspectives on racism against minorities of the United States. My perspective is that police have been harassing more people of color more during the

Throughout the 1900s, the United States of America has struggled with a national struggle for civil rights. The book Bridges of Reform by Shana Bernstein focuses on one of the most influential areas of civil rights activism: the West Coast. California, in particular, has had a long era of civil rights struggles, spanning from the labor wars all the way to the 1970s. This is largely due to the fact that Los Angeles became to be an increasingly multiethnic population throughout its history; however, Los Angeles learned to deal with this through forming multiracial coalitions seeking to challenge discrimination in the city. Her work places multiracial communities of the United States West at the center of U.S. civil rights history. Shana Bernstein

This paper will cover the events that took place within the first five days in south central Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict .

The obscene discrimination against African Americans was like a room full of balloons, the more balloons added to the room the more pressure there is, and eventually, the balloons in the room pop to relieve the pressure. The same idea is related to how African Americans felt during the 1960s, there was enough pressure that the Harlem and Watts Riots led to the release of some of that pressure. This study looks at two of the most predominant race riots in the 1960s, the Harlem Race Riot of 1964 and the Watts Race Riot of 1965. The Harlem and Watts Riot argue that African Americans revolted in different ways by comparing and contrasting both riots by looking at the cause, who was involved, how the riot was put down, and what changes occurred after the riot for the people in those cities in America. The paper will focus on the locations, the reaction of the police, and the specific event based on accounts and archives.

Unlike other immigration waves in history, during The Great Migration almost 6 million African Americans moved from rural southern parts of the United States to cities in the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970. This was due to the treatment of blacks prior to movement and their struggle for equality. African americans faced discrimination in our legal system and education system, and in general were segregated from whites with inferior facilities.

The history of African-Americans in the United States is full of many periods of achievements, as well as periods of struggle. The Los Angeles riots of 1992 were the result of many years of systematic racism in the United States following the Civil Rights Movement. The beating and unjust trial of Rodney King exposed the unfair and brutal treatment of African Americans by the police. As well as the shooting of 15 year-old Latasha Harlins 2 weeks after the beating of Rodney King to further ignite hatred within African-Americans in Los Angeles. What came forth was a week long riot not only changed Los Angeles, but the United States. That is why the Los Angeles riots was the most devastating, yet consequential, civil uproar in the history of the United States.

It was them who became the driving force of the new black social and political life that was born in America. During the Great Migration, the inhabitants of the South left their agricultural states and moved to the industrial cities of the North, North-East and West of the country. This lasted from 1910 to 1970. During this period, about 6 million African Americans moved to the North . The industrial North was in dire need of labor, so the owners of the factories of the North had to recruit the labor of the South.

(Wolf, 2011) The Watts Riots was an historic event and it was consider a revolutionary spirit for Blacks in South Central, LA and was a message around the world including newspaper, articles and news that were broadcast from coast to coast. Watts was the start of a series of racial conflicts and urban areas throughout the U.S. (Downs, 2015). It was hostility between the black neighborhoods and whites and it unmasked on what it used to be and now as they look back at the Watts Riots in 1965. The Watts Riots finally rested and young black communities begin to join dominated non-organizational empowerment movements and one of them was the effortless Black

Integration was important because it helped stop all the violence and high tension in the south during that time period.I thought that it also helped break the hard racist skin of some whites in the south during the civil rights movement.like the real life story of ruby bridges and the movie version that was really accurate.I preety much thought that she was the spark that ignited to make many moreschools in the south if not all of them.Prove of this a few years after the events of ruby bridges shcool life She made the ruby bridges intergrated schools fundation.