Civil Rights Movement of the 50's and 60's

Meanwhile, in 1963 King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), continued to fight for civil rights but this time they marched to Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham was the worst city for the blacks in the south. King went to the city’s leaders and demanded that they change the laws about public places being segregated, but the leaders of Birmingham refused to change. Many blacks were afraid to protest because they were scared that they would end up in jail. King responded with, “If the road to freedom leader through the jailhouse … then, turnkey, swing wide the gates!” (Hakim 18). On April 12, 1963 King led a march down the streets of Birmingham. They headed towards City Hall, but never made it because the police stopped the

The turning point in King’s career came in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. The SCLC launched a major demonstration to protest anti-Black attitudes in the South. Confrontations ensued between unarmed Black demonstrators and Birmingham police and firemen who used clubs, attack dogs, and fire hoses as a show of unnecessary force to quell the crowd. The publication of this demonstration and the incidents that ensued had profound effects across the country. It sparked protests across the country and prompted President John F. Kennedy to push for passage of new civil rights legislation.

At rest stops, whites would go in Black’s only areas and vice versa. Hostility was faced along the way, as in Montgomery, Alabama, where an uprising occurred and President Kennedy felt it necessary to enforce Martial Law. Although the “ride” never made it to New Orleans, they forced the Kennedy Administration to take a stand against civil rights and segregation was outlawed in interstate bus travel. Arguably the most significant victory for the Civil Rights Movement occurred in Birmingham, Alabama. Martin Luther King led sit-ins and protests against segregation beginning on April 3, 1963. Bull Connor, mayor of Birmingham attempted to stop these protests by jailing MLK. In solitary confinement, King wrote the highly influential, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” further encouraging protests. Children refused to attend school and stayed in parks. Connor sent in firefighters to hose them away but they remained insistent. When all jails were filled and the administration had it’s back to the wall, business communities agreed to integrate lunch counters and hire more black workers; a huge victory for Martin Luther King. After events like these and a considerable amount of bloodshed, the segregation problem took an upward swing and differences began to be reconciled, eventually leading to the Civil Rights Act of 1954.

Institutions (such as schools, prisons, hospitals, churches, military, mass media, etc) are all collective systems meant to dictate how the masses who believe in and follow them, live and act. Each institution has its own collective set of rules, often times mostly unspoken, to guide what others in the institution should be doing in terms of right and wrong. But these rules are never fixed and may fluctuate with changes in leadership or environment among other things. The fluctuations of these rules mean that they must often be tested by people more on the fringe of the institution in order to determine where the heart of the institution stands at any given moment. That testing of boundaries, in and of itself, constitutes deviance and helps to explain how institutions meant to discourage it accidentally encourage it.

IN 1964, with increasing national attention focused on the civil rights drive in the South, COFO launched "Freedom Summer," a major drive to educate and register voters, including the use of northern volunteers. On June 20, 1964, 200 recruits left from Oxford, Ohio for Mississippi. On June 21 three workers -- James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner -- were reported missing. The long search for their bodies (they were not found until Aug. 4) focused national attention on the civil rights movement and helped build public opinion in support of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, signed by President Johnson on July 2, 1964.

To expose the viciousness of southern racists and compel President Kennedy to act, Martin Luther King Jr., in 1963 led marches, sit ins, and pray ins in Alabama. At the time, the Police Chief sent his police with electric cattle prods, high pressure water hoses, and attack dogs against the peaceful demonstrators. The televised brutality aroused international indignation and prompted Kennedy to convince the leaders in Alabama that they must desegregate stores and upgrade black

In the history of the United States there have been many social changes that have occurred. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s was one of the most significant and important for the equality of all people. Since the abolition of slavery in 1863, there had been a continuous conflict between the races of people who live in the United States. African Americans have a history of struggles because of racism and prejudices. Ever since the end of the Civil War, they struggled to benefit from their full rights that the Constitution promised. Jim Crow was laws that enforced racial segregation more than a series of rigid anti-black laws it was like a way of life. Jim Crow in America hasn’t ended its merely redesigned and renamed. According to

During this time segregation was enforced greatly by the government and citizens. Many African Americans were tired of being discriminated against and decided to take a stand for their rights. Many African Americans did this by using white only restrooms or white only restaurants. King started to stand up for his rights when African Americans, like Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, were being thrown in jail for sitting at the front of the bus when they were only allowed to sit or stand in the back of the bus. On the night Rosa Parks got arrested the head of the local NAACP met with King and other local civil rights leaders to plan a bus boycott in Montgomery. King was elected to lead the boycott because he was young, had good connections with people, and had a college degree. In King's first speech that he gave to the NAACP, he was able to create some new energy and determination into the people, who faced the struggles of segregation in Alabama. The bus boycott involved 382 days of protesting at workplaces. During this time the African American community dealt with harassment, violence, and intimidation by the police and the white communities. After the white community was being defeated in several court rulings and suffering large financial losses, the city of Montgomery lifted the law that segregated public

King?s home was bombed. Also Nixon?s home was also bombed. After that they turned to the law. The whites arrested blacks for any minor traffic violation possible. No matter the problems they faced they did not break down. They took it all the way to the federal courts. November 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal court's ruling, declaring segregation on buses unconstitutional. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was officially over. Although the boycott was over the whites did not take this lightly. There was a series of bombings, threats and attempts to scare blacks off busses.

Sometimes a single issue can cause a rift between a political party and its members. Due in large part to this Civil Rights movement during the 1960s, there was a switch in the Democratic and Republican parties in terms of region and race of the parties' supporting coalitions.

In today’s world, people deal with the constant struggle of finding whose needs are more important. Individuals, and individualism itself, claim to have their life be there’s, and they can do whatever they please, however, when people put society’s needs before theirs, they are doing their good for society, and everyone around them. Society’s goal is to move the human population forward in a positive direction, and to help everyone instead of just one person. In today’s world, individuals must look at society, and social needs to fulfill their own needs, giving the needs of society more of an importance to all.

The civil right movement started in the late 1950’s. It was very bad back then, because black American’s could not being in place or have the same things like white American’s . All the black American’s were mad about that they were treated differently that’s why they were fighting for freedom.

Yesterday was a very important day. Not for the success of Donald Trump, nor the farewell to Barack Obama. It was important because of the transfer of power between leaders of powerful lands. I think it's often forgotten that this country has dedicated its founding to and for the rights of every gender, race, sexual orientation, and religion. No other country can claim that they started with those convictions first and foremost before we did.

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.

In the history of united states, there has been many changes that has been occurred. The civil rights movement of 1960 is one of the most important change which sought to bring equalilty amony people. There has always been discrimination among the races of people who live in the united states. To put an end to this discrimination, the civil rights movement was born .Unfortunately, many of the changes that the movement fought , brought forth a violent reaction from the white southerner which led to the death of many prominent leaders. This led to the rise of two distinct black protesters : one who pursued freedom through violence and the other through peaceful non violent resistance.