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Though the conclusion of the American Civil War in 1965 marked the end of slavery in the United States, African-Americans would not see anything resembling true freedom from the segregation and isolation imposed by slavery until very recently, and only after decades of difficult struggle. Some of the most important achievements occurred during the 1960s, when a generation of African-American leaders and activists, including Martin Luther King Jr., Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and the Freedom Riders, fought against some of the last vestiges of explicit, institutionalized segregation, discrimination, and isolation in order to attain equality and civil rights. Only by examining the treatment of African-Americans throughout America's history can one begin to understand how the the ending of slavery, the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and the contemporary issues facing the African-American community are inextricably linked. In turn this allows one to see how rather than existing as a single, identifiable turning point in the history of civil rights, African American's struggle for equality and an end to isolation must be considered as an ongoing project.

The American Civil Rights Movement in the late 1950s and 1960s generated massive international following and controversy, which made the movement one of the most important in U.S. history. The movement’s legacy can still be felt today, with the positive aspects, such as voting rights to African Americans and wide spread desegregation of public facilities, still being felt in the United States, and in many similar models across the globe. Although there were many “battlegrounds” where civil issues were debated, many people who know of the movement today would argue that the movement’s heart was rooted in the Deep South, ironically where it could be argued that the mentality of people living in the area at the time were the most violently opposed to such civil rights. In contrast, those who championed the Civil Rights Movement chose the tactic of nonviolence, at least at first, as a tool to dismantle racial segregation, discrimination, and inequality. They followed models that Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists had commissioned, using principles of nonviolence and passive resistance. Civil rights leaders had understood that segregationists would do anything to maintain their power over blacks. So, in consequence, they believed some changes might be made if enough people outside the

The Civil Rights Movement was an obvious struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of racial discrimination (Civil Rights Movement, 2005). According to Civil Rights Movement, 2005, this movement occurred to guarantee African Americans their citizenship and their rights, which were supposed to be protected by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. There are many different views and opinions on whether or not racial issues have or have not improved since the Civil Rights Movement. While some things

The civil rights movement of the sixties is one of the most controversial times of the last century. Many, if not all, who lived through that time, and the generations following were enormously impacted. At the time passions ran so high that violence at peaceful

A debate in civil rights history appeared in the decades following the well-publicized struggles of the early 1960s and continues today. This debate is of whether the movement was finished with its goals when it attained equal treatment under the law, or whether it had changed to a new goal of fighting all forms of discrimination, not just the formal version found in Jim Crow.

Cold War Civil Rights by Mary Dudziak’s is a unique take on the American race problem during the 1950s and 60s. The legal segregation is viewed in context of the impact it had on the Cold War. The Civil Rights legislation passed in the 20th century was a result of America’s desire to apply democracy as a “way of life” worldwide.

The most documented period in the history of the African American search for racial equality comes during the Cold War period, where issues of equality were thrust into international politics. Debatably one of the greatest aids to civil rights was the USA’s promotion of freedom regarding the fight against communism. The intensity of this argument aided the civil rights movement significantly, Dudziak hypothesizing that ‘the fight against communism forced American leaders to introduce key social reforms… including desegregation, because they were embarrassed about racial relations at home’, reinforced by Fairclough, arguing that ‘racial segregation… became an embarrassment to Washington’. However, much of the desegregation legislation that was passed during this period was prioritized toward the fight against communism, rather than civil rights. This resulted in a blanketing effect, where virtually any political voice who spoke out against the government would have their passports revoked, being unable to speak out against the US government on a national stage, occurring notably to civil rights activist DuBois, Layton commenting that this level of protectionism was ‘the single most costly act of propaganda America had taken’, in regards to its black citizens. Participation in the Vietnam conflict saw the highest enrollment of blacks in American history, 12.6% (Butler, 1999), and was the first fully integrated war unit in combat. However, akin to the Second World War, the

The 1960’s in the United States was an era of tremendous struggle for African-American all around America, but especially for those who lived in the south. Laws such as the Jim Crow act, voter suppression, intimidation, oppression, and the fight for equality, all were issues that African-Americans had to deal with in the 1960’s. The 1964 civil right act was a major executive action taken by then president Kennedy do to protests that had gone on for years in southern states by African-Americans, and Caucasians who unified in order to try and end segregation, and provide African-American with the same equality that Caucasian Americans had (Lawson, et al., pg. 28 &29). Many white southerners apposed ending segregation or giving African-American the same rights as they had, and terrorized those who fought for equality every step of the way (Lawson, et al., pg.21).

The Civil Rights Movement was an unforgettable era in American History because it has influenced so much of this countries laws and norms, making what was at a time acceptable in this country extremely unacceptable and unpracticed. This inevitable struggle for freedom, natural human rights, and acceptance was a violent and non-violent volatile reaction to a broken and unjust system. Many leaders and citizens fought for the freedom and justice of the minorities in the United states of America during the Civil Rights movement, by using unique approached, strong strategies, and intelligence to earn this respect and freedom. Civil Rights leaders like the well-known Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many other influential people bravely led the Civil Rights Movement and creating a new America where “the system of Jim Crow segregation and racism was reformed and eliminated”1 Additionally, the cause of the Civil Rights Movement, the various forms of protest, and the aftermath of the movement will be discussed throughout this essay, and the reader will be able to gain a stronger understanding of the Civil Rights Movement as a whole.

Throughout the 1960’s, the widespread movement for African American civil rights had transformed in terms of its goals and strategies. The campaign had intensified in this decade, characterized by greater demands and more aggressive efforts. Although the support of the Civil Rights movement was relatively constant, the goals of the movement became more high-reaching and specific, and its strategies became less compromising. African Americans’ struggle for equality during the 1960’s was a relentless movement that used change for progress. In essence, the transformation of the Civil Rights Movement throughout the 1960’s forwarded the evolution of America into a nation of civil equality and freedom.

Introduction: America is a country that is famous for its freedom and its citizens love of patriotism. But America has had a dark past when it comes to the famous Civil Rights Movement of the 1930’s that lasted for a few decades. This was the era when the United States of America was famous for its famous doctrine “Separate but equal” this essentially meant that even though Caucasian and African American citizens where segregated they were supposed to have experienced equality however this was not the case. Many African American citizens where constantly oppressed and did not receive equality to their Caucasian brethren. So, from this I will talk to you today about the Oppression of African American citizens, how World War Two was a pinnacle

As World War II ended in 1945 the world was barely taking a step towards recovery as tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union grew over the fate of eastern Europe. Tensions weren’t exclusively in international relationships. At the home front American officials were being increasingly pressured to ensure civil rights for everyone. Despite the pressure put on officials by fellow Americans “committed to fighting racism abroad” (871) and by other countries, the process of eliminating racism and advancing civil rights for African Americans wasn’t successful until the 1950’s.

Ten years after Fairclough article, another author continues the discussion of historians and their attempt to analysis the civil rights movement. Charles W. Eagles’ article “Toward New Histories of the Civil Rights Era” provides further supporting evidence that scholars fail to analyze the movement to its fullest potential. Eagles utilizes diplomatic historian John Lewis Gaddis analogy of historians studying the cold car. According to Gaddis, cold war scholars “reflected the contemporaneous debates rather than viewing them with the detachment that comes after the end of an era; they viewed events from the inside instead of from the outside … Many scholars did not know how to get perspective on foreign policy because they had never experienced anything but the cold war.” Both Gaddis and Eagles contend that conducting an outside looking inward study of a particular subject matter becomes difficult when you lack the personal experience of a world apart from the movement. With the end of the cold war, Gaddis expects (hopes) the historiography to revert to a normal history. Those studying the civil rights movement will continue to report what Gaddis calls “abnormal history” because most scholars refuse to admit to its end. They contend, “They cannot, and do not want to, declare the struggle to be ‘over’ because racial discord has not ended and racial justice has not been achieved.” Eagles believes that recent scholarships suggest a richer historiography

Throughout the course of American’s history people of colored skin have been infinitely and continuously oppressed and suppressed for decades. For numerous years people of color had to endure horrific attacks of inferiority and hatred. From being sold as property to being psychically, emotionally, and verbally beaten to ones defeat. The fight for equality between all races has been long fought especially for people of African descent. The need for change was in dire need and no more could the people stand it. During the 1900s it became lucid what needed to be done and without any warning the African-American Civil Rights Moment would begin. Initially around the 1930s spanning all the way to the late 1960s, those it is said to be the time of civil change. Of all the decades that fell into the duration of the African-American Civil Rights Moment many would say that the 1950s was the catalyst for the major change that was brought upon many Americans during the African-American Civil Rights Moment. Many key events happened during the 1950s and if they creased to happen then it would be a great lose and an immense setback. Though key events did occur before the 1950s the majority were placed in the 1950s. The 1950s was a time of great importance for civil rights and essentially the spark in which great change overcame the people of the United States of America.

The Cold War In 1945, the United States and Soviet Union were allies, triumphant in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe. Within a few years, yet, wartime allies became mortal enemies, locked in a global struggle—military, political, economic, ideological—to prevail in a new "Cold War. Was it the Soviets, who reneged on their agreements to allow the people of Eastern Europe to determine their own fates by imposing totalitarian rule on territories unlucky enough to fall behind the "Iron Curtain?" Or was it the Americans, who ignored the Soviets' legitimate security concerns, sought to intimidate the world with the atomic bomb, and pushed to expand their own international influence and market dominance? The tensions that would later grow into Cold War became evident as early as 1943, when the "Big Three" allied leaders—American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin—met in Tehran to coordinate strategy. Poland, which sits in an unfortunate position on the map, squeezed between frequent enemies Russia and Germany, became a topic for heated debate. The Poles, then under German occupation, had not one but two governments-in-exile—one Communist, one anticommunist—hoping to take over the country upon its liberation from the Nazis. The Big Three disagreed over which Polish faction should b allowed to take control after the war, with