Covering Information During the Civil Rights Movement

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

No matter varying ideas as to success, it is difficult to ignore that American culture has undergone immense changes since the 1950s. The Civil Rights movement, the emergence of feminism, and gay activism have literally revolutionized the society and how it functions, with many changes going to the promotion of equality and heightened awareness of the needs of others. At the same time, unfortunately, sexual criminality and violence remain critical issues, with women being the primary victims. The patriarchal foundation of the society has diminished, yet norms still providing men with entitlement remain in place, and this is a reality supported by modern research still referring to a “rape culture.” This same research also presents disturbing evidence of how young college students widely maintain norms affirming male dominance and aggression. No simple solution is then possible, and any effective course must rely on as in-depth research as may be conducted. To that end, the following assessment of study on the subject concludes with a research proposal, and one utilizing Structural Functionalism Theory and the innate value in interviewing students in both collective and individual ways.

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 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”).

The major accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s the freedom equal all thing like whites in employment, housing, education, and the end of segregation. Since the Civil War African Americans were still fighting for true freedom in all areas not just from slavery. African Americans put pressure against segregation was so high that even if they got arrested they would continue to do what it takes to ensure their freedom.

The Civil Rights Movement was able to dismantle the Jim Crow’s segregation because those who suffered during that time worked together in a way that showed the only violent people here are those who are racist. The movement showed how inhumane it was to treat innocent people badly just base on their skin color. It proved that black people are not the problem, they just wanted to live in peace. They were also determined that no matter how many times they were turned down; they would not give up. They were devoted to get a hold of people’s attention

On December 7, 1956, I was getting on a bus headed towards New York. As I was trying to find a seat, I saw an open seat right in front of the white people section and sat in it. A few moments after I sat down, a few other men got on the bus. After all of them filled the rest of the white seats, one man didn’t have a seat. After the bus driver got up and saw the man standing in the middle of the aisle, he got up and told all of the African-American people in the first row to get up and let this man have a seat. So I slowly got up and moved around the lady that I sat next to. I expected her to get up along with me but she remained still. After I had made it to the back of the bus where all of the other African american people stood, THe bus

In 1960 the Civil Rights Movement was beginning to gain a lot strength. Many civil

In the past previous civil rights events. I believe to have significance on the people; a social, moral, and ethical way in American history today. I have found two; the first is on Martin Luther King, who had a mission in his life for preaching for peace and also marched in Washington to come together as one race in a united front (Cyr, A. I., 2015). He was a Southern Christian, black African man, who preached to stop the racial relations and end the violence back then; with his speech, I have a dream. It was in the 1960s when this was happening. At that time, the president, in office was John F. Kennedy who actively supported the civil rights legislation (Cyr, A. I., 2015). The second is on Rosa Parks, a black African

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Source C (See Appendix 3) is certainly valuable to some extent. The provenance of the source is from a report by a civil rights worker for the NAACP, early 1930s. This is valuable to an historian studying the Civil Rights Movement because it is relevant to the time period. However, a limitation is that subjectivity of the witness is problematic. This is because a single piece of testimony cannot claim to be a representative viewpoint, a reliable indication of general opinion.

The influences media had on social events in the past has allowed people to know about current events around them. The Civil Rights Movement took place in the early-to-mid-1960s, the Race Beat is an overview of what took place during this period. If there were advances in media during this era, do you feel that past events in history would’ve had an altered outcome?

articles were being written in the newspapers or televised. The media gave Americans a visual of

“These shackles don’t rob us for being black, son, they rob us for being human.” said Robert Lewis (Planter) (Myers 359), he is one of the generations of the Lewis family. 5 generations of the Lewis family tell stories their life and will find the way to freedom. Using three different conflicts during the Civil Rights Movement, Myers correctly presents the fight for Civil Rights in the U.S: Civil Rights march/ “I have a Dream” speech, Malcolm X, and Tommy fights to go to a white college.

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement demonstrates one of the greatest amounts of deviance in history, in which they violated social norms in the fight of equality for all. At the time, their social factors like media, for example, influenced their deviance. According to their media at the time, a lot of their frustrations and problems were portrayed through the resources they had available, which was new media. Through movies and shows, the movement shed light on the everyday struggles minorities faced. New media was used as a way to grab the attention of government so that there can be something done about minority disadvantages. Those similar tactics are still applied in social movements today. The notions of deviance change within these