How Did The Civil Rights Movement Affect Our World

Many African Americans were concerned on what the NAACP were really focused on. The NAACP focused on fighting philosophical and legal battles that had no impact on African Americans. The next 10 years were a real struggle on putting hard work on trying to make a change in these African American lives in many ways, In 1947, the NAACP expressed how African Americans struggled on gaining civil rights and not having the united states government support and protect their rights as people. It took very little for the government to respond. The government issued a report, that stated how being a man or women of color can affect the outcome of employment, housing and educational opportunities. A year later president Harry Truman chose to come out and help banned discrimination within the federal government. It was a very big step for African Americans leading toward their fight, but unfortunately was not a great success. Sadly discrimination was well and alive, which lead the NAACP to cast its “Fight for Freedom” campaign. It was meant to end segregation and discrimination against African Americans. One unbroken struggle for African Americans was public transportation. Whites and African Americans were forced to sit in different sections within buses and trains. If there weren't enough seats for the whites to sit, African Americans were expected to give up their seat so

They were arrested and found guilty in three different court appearances. In the Wichita and Oklahoma City Sit some sat in at a lunch counter and some sat in at a drug store called Dockum Drugs. Sit ins left some of the Freedom Riders severely injured one Rider Jim Peck left the hospital with 53 stitches. The White people who weren’t associated with the Freedom Riders hated their actions and beat them until they were almost dead. Jim Peck was extremely lucky to get out alive. Just because they were beat up, wounded, and tattered they didn’t give up because it meant so much to them to become equal. Sit ins were extremely successful in a way where they caused widespread diffusion of integrating public places. Some sit INS were so dramatic every place around them got rid of segregation. The Nashville and Greensboro sit ins launched a wave of anti segregation sit ins across the South and opened a national awareness of segregation. After most sit ins the place became integrated. Sit ins were very successful in integrating the south.

America was highly separated. The blacks ,or coloreds, had nastier restaurants, bathrooms , and etc… than the whites. The white side of everything was so much better than the coloreds people's stuff. Many blacks were fed up with being secondary and not having clean bathrooms and nicer restaurants. One of the many blacks fed up with it is Rosa Parks. Buses were separated by front and back. whites in the front blacks in the back. “ When the bus became crowded, the driver instructed Mrs. Parks and the three other seated in that row, and all african americans, to vacate their seats for the white passengers boarding. She argued that she was not in a seat reserved for whites. He (the bus driver) called the cops.” (An Act of Courage, The Arrest of Rosa Parks) She was arrested for defying a bus driver which was a crime in Montgomery, Alabama. She was apprehended and incarcerated for a short time. When she called her mom the first thing her mom asked was “Did They

In 1961 James Farmer knew he had to get the attention of the press but he didn’t know how. Then he had the idea of The Freedom Riders (TFR) and what these people would do is get about a hundred of them and get on a bus but they would take up all the seats and not get off so no one could get on. They were never violent about anything they did. Some people had the idea for the bus waiting room too. Black people would crowd up the white waiting room so the white people had to go into the color waiting room all the while all of the TFR were nonviolent. This worked until disaster striked TFR were doing the usual crowding up a bus and I guess some people got fed up with in because the bus stopped and then burst into flames. In the after math there was reports of a old man Walter Bergman that was in a wheel chair was beaten half to

In Freedom’s Main Line, Derek Catsam argues that the most important battle for civl rights was segregated transportation. The first piece of evidence Catsam provides for this statement is that segregated transportation sparked the beginning of the freedom riders. The Freedom Riders were a group of civil rights activists who would ride interstate buses into the segregated southern United States beginning in 1961. Their reason for beginning this act was to challenge the lack of enforcement of the United States Supreme Court’s decision that segregated buses were unconstitutional.

The president at the time, John F. Kennedy, heard about the news and wanted to protect them but also didn’t want the whites to get angry also. So the president’s brother Robert Kennedy, who was also the U.S Attorney General, sent 400 U.S marshals to keep the peace in Montgomery and escort the freedom Riders to safety. This helped the Freedom Riders but this was not

The Freedom Riders tested this decision and poor implementation of the law by riding the buses in the South in blended racial groups to test neighborhood laws or traditions that upheld seating segregation on buses. The Freedom Rides, and the brutal responses: stirred outrage, and supported the Civil Rights Movement. They called national attention to the

Segregation was a big thing in 1961.It became such a big deal that many children and adults chose to go to jail just to make people see that segregation was a horrible thing to do. Africans Americans and Caucasians were separated by there skin color. But that all changed when the Freedom riders spoke out about segregation. The freedom riders changed society by changing the way people feel about African Americans in today’s society.

The fight for freedom was not an easy one for blacks. Years of racial bigotry programmed in society’s mind was the biggest hurdle for blacks in the US. You can change legislation but not the minds and behaviors of people. This made it imperative that black initiate different strategies to achieve the goal of being treated like a human being and having the same inalienable rights given to everyone else. They demonstrated peacefully and they demonstrated in ways that became violent. In the end, they got the attention they needed to begin change. Their fight not only gave rights to blacks but to all people.

African-American Freedom Riders also tried to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters, and White Freedom Riders tried to use “blacks-only” facilities. Their actions would lead to their arrests but also drew in international

On May 4, 1961, a group of civil rights activist inclusive of some African Americans (there was thirteen in total) created the Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders were a series of bus trips protesting segregation in the southern parts of the United States. Eight days later, in Rock Hill, South Carolina four riders were brutally attacked for trying to sit in a white only waiting area. The next day after reaching Atlanta, Georgia the riders split up to cover more ground. The first bus heading for Anniston, Alabama, and the other heading for Birmingham, Alabama.

The freedom riders where a group of men and women both white and black that had got together to end segregation. Their whole response to this conflict was a peaceful response to segregation. How they were a peaceful response is when they all got sent to jail. They didn't fight back with the guards all they simply did was fill the jail up with more riders and and they sang. It did work, and the freedom riders did prove a point that everyone is equal and there is no reason why black people should be segregated and that racism

A group of African Americans came together to form the freedom riders, which focused on sparking violence in order to convince President Kennedy that this rule needs to be heavily enforced.

One specific example of how peaceful resistance had a positive influence on society was on May 4, 1961. This is the time where the Freedom Rides occurred which are series of bus trips that traveled through the American South to protest against segregation in the interstate bus terminals. The people who took these trips were known as the Freedom Riders. Their plan was to go to New Orleans, Louisiana, to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ruled that segregation of the nation’s public schools were unconstitutional. The main goal was to test a 1960 decision by the Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia that segregation of interstate transportation facilities, including bus terminals, was unconstitutional as well.

Freedom riders fought for racial equality among African Americans in America in the 1960’s. Their purpose was to first stop segregation of transportation, and then later expand to racial equality everywhere. They were inspired by Rosa parks actions and advised by Martin Luther King Jr. The freedom riders protests lasted 7 months with about 400 members participating in them. Riders were supported by the Congress for Racial Inequality or CORE. Throughout history the southern states has been a place of slavery and after it has been abolished, the south finds a hard time integrating African Americans into daily lives. As a result of this behavior, the races are segregated. In the south the freedom riders faced many oppositions by legal forces to stop their protests.