Movement : Native American Civil Rights Movement

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.

First of all, the Indian tribes claimed their land. For example, article #2 stated, “ The Cherokee lived in what is now northern Georgia more than-one hundred years before the Georgians arrived.” This means that the Indian tribes started settling in the land way before the actual Georgians arrived. Also, article #2 stated, “ In the case of Worcester vs. Georgia (1832), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state of Georgia couldn't force the Cherokee off of their land.” This shows that the U.S. even agreed that the Indian tribes had no right of moving from the land they claimed. Even though the U.S. government offered the Indian tribes more than “one square mile per person”

The African American Civil right movement in the late 1950’s and throughout the 1960’s was a powerful fight for equal opportunities to the basic rights and privileges outlined by the US government. During this movement thousands of African American individuals and those who believed in the power of the movement, battled against the piercing white supremacy through various tactics including grass root movements. The grass root movements in the 60’s was characterized by organizations of individuals fighting for equality on the behalf of the African Americans, ultimately shaping American history. Such movements helped to raise awareness on a political level, of the injustice all African American’s endured. Grassroots activist during the 60’s were able to organize marches, rallies and protests in order to mobilize and strengthen the Civil Rights Movement. Grass rooting activism during the Civil Rights Movement in the 60’s shaped American History by aiding in the abolished laws restricting African American’s freedom to vote, the abolishment of segregation in school, and the passage of the Civil Rights act outlawing discrimination.

Native Americans were very important to American history; they were the first people in America (Nash, 2010, p. 13). Native Americans have their own form of governing, vastly different language, religious beliefs, and dress and for some reason the Natives have been generally excluded from American success (Nash, 2010, pg. 14-15). This is especially true when we look at how America put into place the "Manifest destiny" the idea that the United States had the God-given right and duty to take

The African American civil rights movement was a long journey for African American nationwide. The success involved many people, hardships and time in order to advance the African American community in America. The purpose of the movement was to achieve their rights, cease discrimination, and racial segregation.

1. Why did four Indigenous activists erect a beach umbrella on the lawns of Old Parliament House?

People had badly mistreated American-Indians in the period of the 1800s. When it came to the dilemma of who gets the land of whom. In this specific case of "The Indian Removal Act'' it authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. This was also an Act to

The settlers mistreated the kindness of the natives, their greed caused them to continuously push for more, including land mass. The colonists did not understand the connection the natives had with the land and environment, natives ‘’lived with nature’’, they seemed to understand their surroundings and the environment itself. They did not want to change it, they would remain in a certain area and then move, so that nature could rebuild itself and become new. They believed that people could live anywhere they want to, but no land was owned by specific people, the area which they occupied was meant to live in piece upon it. This is proven to be all opposite to the intentions of the settlers, for the Indians, the concept of owning landing was foreign, they could not comprehend that the colonists would begin to take up the land mass and fill it with more settlers, and that they were forever going to occupy and keep it.

Native Americans today are made to face hardships that may not have been an issue, had they not been forced out of their lands by white settlers pursuing Manifest Destiny. The Native Americans lost everything and were, as a race, doomed to future failure by white settlers; they are still today plagued by the addictions and violence that come as a result of poverty. Manifest Destiny tore apart everything the Native Americans had worked

In today’s day and age, equality, freedom, and rights for all are topics that are constantly being brought up in politics and everyday life. However, these are not new ideas. In fact, throughout history, people have been fighting for their freedom, equality, rights, and fighting against the degeneration their cultures and beliefs. In the case of the Native Americans, they were abused and exploited for millennia only to “benefit” people of higher power. Similar to other oppressed groups, there became a time when the American Indians began to stand for who they are and commenced fighting for the demolition of injustice. Because of the increasing need for a voice, members of the Native American communities band together to create the American Indian Movement (AIM).

Native American history spans tens of thousands of thousands of years and two continents. It is a multifaceted story of dynamic cultures that in turn spawned intricate economic relationships and complex political alliances. Through it all, the relationship of First Peoples to the land has remained a central theme.

The American Civil Rights Movement is personified through several prominent personalities. These figures exhibited strong character throughout their careers in activism that revolutionized the ideals and opportunities of the 20th century, standing as precedents for courage and perseverance in the face of widespread systemic oppression. However, not all of these figures received the acknowledgment and acceptance that their legacy deserved. One such figure was Bayard Rustin, a lifelong Civil Rights activist in the African American and LGBTQ communities whose experiences exemplified the hardships faced by American minorities. His career was defined by perpetual conflict and confrontation as both sides of the Civil Rights Movement attempted to demonize and discredit him. Despite this obstacle, Bayard Rustin’s controversial decision-making and sheer tenacity made him an influential force in the ongoing fight for equality in the United States of America.

For hundreds of years Native Americans inhabited North America. When Europeans came to the New World they did not understand these indigenous people. For a long time these natives were seen as “savages” who had backwards traditions. After the American Revolution, Americans were pushing to try to expand their territory. They wanted to expand westward towards the Pacific Ocean, to get closer to China. Native Americans we victims of changing times in America. With Europeans and then Americans aggressively pushing west the Natives could not keep up with technologies of the whites, they were also a victim to the white mans epidemics, horse and the environment. All of these factors caused the natives to be victims of westward expansion in America. Native Americans play a large role in Western history of the United States but the power struggle that they faced with white people forever changed their destiny.

The history of Native Americans is unique and tragic. It is unique, because the Indians were the original inhabitants of the American continent, and experienced all the stages of its settlement by Europeans since the first colonies in the 17th century and ending with the completion of the development of the western borders by the end of the 19th century. It is tragic because the conflict between Indians and whites is a repetition of the experience of other nations of the world, the tradition which clashed with the expanding industrialized

The Civil Rights movement is one of the most important acts to change the way not only African Americans were able to live their lives but all races and colors. It would slowly break down the social, economic, political, and racial barriers that were created by the The Age of Discovery and Transatlantic Slave trade. I believe without the Civil Rights acts our country would result to be no better than what it was when the Emancipation Proclamation just took effect. In the 1950s and long before, Southern folk, who were white had created a system that would interpret them as a superior race over blacks. The system would defend whites rights and privileges from being taken away from them while establishing terrible inhumane suffering for African Americans. In the South blacks were controlled in all aspects economic, political, and personal, this was called a “tripartite system of domination” - (Aldon D. Morris) (6) Though it isn’t as prevalent racism and discrimination towards other races that aren’t white is still found in America and can be in schools, the workplace, even when you are in the general public but you no longer see discriminating signs saying “Whites” or “Blacks” or Colored” along the front of bathroom, restaurants, and shopping malls doors. Nor do you see people being declined the right to buy a home based on their color or access to school and an equal education being declined because one didn’t meet racial requirements. The acts of violence towards