Interpretations Of The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement and Women’s Suffrage Movement are historically influential events that are still perpetuating different convictions in today’s society. The Civil Rights Movement established a foundation of equality and civil liberties for African Americans while the Women’s Suffrage Movement granted women the right to vote and contributed a sense of equality among genders. Both movements were in need of empathy and aid in order to bring about equality and change, in which were difficult to find with the majority of the appropriate public being white males who disagreed with the movements. The activists of both the Civil Rights Movement and Women’s Suffrage Movement were on the wrong side of public empathy, yet the discrimination of the public view, the protesting of the victims, and the equal rights being fought for demanded a change in the conduct and the way in which the public empathized with these people.

Fredrick Douglas once said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” During the 1960’s in America, there were major movements the promoted change throughout the country. The Civil Rights movement, which got its start in the 1950’s, strived for racial equality for African Americans. Meanwhile, the Women’s Rights Movement, focused on battling for better pay and equal opportunities for women. While the Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Liberation Movement differed in their initial purposes, both groups worked to promote equality in the United States and made a profound impression for the decades to come.

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time”-Malcolm X. In every movement men and women have crossed paths with others that share their goals, but not everyone shares the same path to achieve it. The civil rights movement of the nineteen fifties and sixties were no different in this case, while many shared the common goal of equality for all, not everyone shared the same style or belief system to achieve it creating sources of conflict within various civil rights organizations as well as between organizations. Freedom activists, Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael sharing the same goal as other civil rights leaders John Lewis

Imagine a world in which all men weren 't created equal. A world where skin color, ethnic origin, gender, and sexuality was what defined a person rather than character. “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood”(King). Through the decades of the 1940s-1960s, America built the foundation for civil rights, a movement in which minorities fought for equality. Groups that previously had been discriminated against began to defend themselves with greater strength and success. The civil rights movement inspired African Americans, Native Americans, women, queers, and Latinos to fight for equality. Although each social group faced their own unique challenges during the civil rights movement, each group shared a common connection through their struggles for equality.

Although it was not seen as a right before, equality has grown into the statement for all of the natural human rights. Throughout the growth of the United States, much has changed: technology has advanced, wars have come and passed, old ways have been updated. However, the one thing that has followed slowly behind in the race for change is the equality for all. Those who were once viewed as lesser to the American males—females—are still having to make strides towards equality, but are considerably closer due to their fight for freedom and recognition. The documents “Now We Can Begin” by Crystal Eastman and “What’s Become of Rosie the Riveter?” by Frieda S. Miller are examples of what some of the women were out there fighting for.

In American history, the time period of 1848 to 1920 is known as the women's rights movement. During this time period women moved to become the social, economical, and political equals of males in America. This movement can be called arguably one of the longest civil rights movements in the history of America. This civil rights movement lasted for seventy two years, overshadowing the well known African American Civil Rights Movement by nearly a sixty year time span. There were a multitude of reasons and encouraging factors that drove the American women (and men) to push for equal rights. The most

Many people believe that women did not play any essential roles in our country’s history until the 1960s. However, this is not the case. Women have played many vital roles in suffrage movements as attempts to shed light upon or cure many of the ills of American society throughout American history.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement for African Americans developed. Following, various civil rights movements for minorities began to emerge. These movements mainly focused on their own ethnic struggles, however, the feminist movement had no relation towards a culture. Generally, the feminist movement targeted women’s issues from reliable birth control, safe and legal abortion, and equal pay. At the same time, the movement failed to acknowledge the issues minories encountered besides sexism.

Virtually every book written about the Civil Rights Movement is from the perspective of either Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X. Not to say these two courageous individuals didn’t raise up to the occasion and lead many blacks to equality. You can't forget the majority of the textbooks and major lectures don't talk about the work down in smaller southern towns and the many blacks who didn’t tip their hats to whites who they walked passed on the sidewalks. This remarkable books tells the story with a different perspective that many people might usually over look as 'not that important to us' but, in reality these are the type of stories that should be taught in history classrooms. By only reading the first few pages of this book, you quickly start to realize it holds many great stories of Americas forgotten heroes. But this book truly represents the struggle of equality for blacks not only in the south but also in the eyes of the Supreme Court.

When analyzing the evidence provided by a various type of sources regarding my research question I also became more enlightened of the challenges historians encounter. As I started reading about this material, I was at first bomb shelled that the main these of the sources that I used differed notably from each other because of the topic I discussed. Eleanor Flexner’s book, Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement, stated and backed up her argument that the women’s rights movement has had a domino effect in the success

The Civil Rights Movement is often portrayed as white men against black men but the women definitely had their dog in the fight so to speak. McGuire recounts the important events of the civil rights movement and highlights the courage exhibited by African American women. She hits the nail on the head in terms of the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was fueled by the courage and the togetherness of the black people, particularly black women. These Black women had the courage to speak up; the courage to fight for justice; the courage to defend black womanhood. Despite the risk of being imprisoned, beaten or lynched these women stood together to fight for what was right. If it hadn't been for their courage I'm not sure if the

Women have always been regarded as key parental figure in raising and developing children in the society. During the period of 1950 to 1970, many parts of the world were marred with civil rights movement. The movements were characterized with protests and civil resistance complaining about discrimination economic and political self sufficiency. Women took up the initiative to participate in these movements. This situation later led to serious confrontation between government authorities and activists. Thousands of people took part in the civil right movement of that period especially in the United States. The key leaders of the campaign, include; Martin Luther King,

When students first get to learn about the Civil Rights Movement in their history class, they most likely will talk about leaders such as Martin Luther King jr., and at times maybe even Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks. There is no mention of Ella Baker, Septima Poinsette Clark, or any other female leader involved in the civil rights movement. All of this, gives the students the impression that men were the only ones involved in leading the movement, making it seem like women were just at home watching this all happen. This of course was not what happened, for they were plenty of women involved, sadly, many of the female leaders were hardly mentioned. For at the time, women were never really allowed to do much compared to what they can do now, which

While analyzing the implications of sex and sexual violence on the actions of Rosa Parks and the following boycott of Montgomery Buses does not change the significance and meaning of the event, it does reflect on changes in the connection between the Civil Rights movement and the push for women’s rights and representation. Though McGuire argues that this lens shows the power of women and their sexuality in the movement, it also reveals a dirty underlying message that pushed women further down in the ranks of the Civil Rights movement.

During the Civil Rights movement of the 1950's and 60's, women played an undeniably significant role in forging the path against discrimination and oppression. Rosa Parks and Jo Ann Robinson were individual women whose efforts deserve recognition for instigating and coordinating the Montgomery Bus Boycotts of 1955 that would lay precedent for years to come that all people deserved equal treatment despite the color of their skin. The WPC, NAACP, and the Montgomery Churches provided the channels to organize the black public into a group that could not be ignored as well supported the black community throughout the difficult time of the boycott.