Opinions On The Civil Rights Movement

Firstly, the Civil Rights Movement was a 15 year time-period that involved the fight to be treated equal, and half of the white people in that time, being completely prejudice or bias, because African-Americans had a different skin color, or in this case, just being different. But not all white people were completely prejudice! There was several white people that supported the Civil Rights Movement! But tragically the group of people that were Anti-Civil Rights Movement anything, and everything, also known as the Ku Klux Klan, would soon send out their members to murder the people that supported the Civil Rights Movement. Which I think was most atrocious!

“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

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 success of the of the American Civil Rights Movement and the fight for racial equality in the United States is a testament to the determination of millions of African Americans who fought against discrimination in the 1960s. A major factor in the success of the movement was the strategy of protesting for equal rights without using violence. Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King championed this approach as an alternative to armed uprising. King's non-violent movement was inspired by the teachings of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi. Millions of blacks took to the streets for peaceful protests as well as acts of civil disobedience and economic boycotts in what some leaders describe as America's second civil war. The non-violent movement was tested in places like Birmingham, Alabama. "The violence was being perpetrated by the oppressors, not the oppressed and that was an incredibly powerful message and an incredibly important tool during the movement," said Richard Cohen an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center.Ben Jealous, president of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest civil rights organization, said the non-violent campaign won American hearts and minds.

The 50s, 60s and 70s were a tumultuous time in American society. Roles were constantly being redefined. Events like the war created upheaval in the lives of many individuals and everyone was scrambling to find his or her place in society. The same was profoundly true for blacks in America. No societal movement had a more profound effect on the lives of Black Americans than did the Civil Rights Movement. The status of Black Americans would be redefined to a revolutionary degree. Civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X would bring the cause to the national stage. Although the movement was plagued with violence and death, it was eventually successful. The South was radically changed from a society of

The African Americans managed to solve their conflict and resolution through acts of non-violence and struggle. Even though the actions taken by Malcolm X were of good intentions, they ended up causing a ripple between African Americans. On the other hand Martin Luther King Jr. identified that if people were going to respond to hatred with more hatred then there will be little chances for change and substance which was never understood by Malcolm. He was, of course, powerful and strong as an Africa American commanding huge followers and believers, but things did not end well as Malcolm X dies in the hand of his own people. This meant that change cannot be made through dividing a nation but through uniting the people. Therefore Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s would have not had the same impact if they had been led by Malcolm X instead of Martin Luther King.

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

The civil rights movement made an impact on the American society. It allowed blacks to have more opportunities than they used to.

I think that the civil rights movement was both a success and a failure for society. The successes were: that it helps us to achieved imposing legislative and judicial triumphs against discrimination with voting, public accommodations, and housing discrimination and combating job, but the ones that were able to take advantage of these “opportunities were the middle-class African Americans who were lawyers, doctors, teachers, and other professionals who had served as role models for the black community” (“The Legacy of”, n.d.). The other success was with the decision to overturn the Brown, which was all about discrimination in education, and it was able to “sounded the death knell for the whole Jim Crow system of second-class citizenship, and to finally conquer Jim Crow” (“The Legacy of”, n.d.).

The American Civil Rights Era and Its Differing Opinions During the 1960’s, America was interlocked in two wars, one with itself and the other with another nation. The interesting thing about both wars, was the fact that they were both mostly non-violent. The war that America was involved with itself in was a war of social justice and equality between the minorities and majority of a segregated nation. During this period, the nation saw many differing opinions and intensities of the civil rights movement by differing groups.

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.

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

With this question, comes a great deal of thought and realization. Thinking about how throughout most of our lives we were taught only what was shown on the surface of the Civil Rights Movement and how great of a success it was and all the accomplishments, unfortunately that was only half of the story. You know the saying, “don’t judge a book by its cover?” well that same logic could be used in this situation as well; the cover being what we are taught in our history classes growing up, but the actual story behind that cover is what is left out, and the harmful truth that teachers seem to leave out of the history lesson. I’m not saying there was no success what so ever during the Civil Rights Movement but there was a lot of failures as well, so in my opinion the Civil Rights Movement was neither a success or failure but a combination between the two.

The civil rights movement was in the late 1940’s to the 1960’s in America where multiple groups of social activists and a rave of social movements collided together to fight against the oppression of colored people. During that era, many African American were expected to stay in fear but on the contrary, many came together and formed organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), there were also younger people that took a stand and formed their own organizations like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The main cause of the civil rights movement was black wanting equal opportunities as whites which were natural human rights, also the right to vote, right of ownership, equal education, the bus boycotts. Without the law, African Americans subdue great physical violence. There were plenty of cases where many have died fighting for the right to be a human being.

The Civil Rights Movement, popular in the 1950s and 1960s, was a large group of people who fought for the equal rights of the African Americans. The people of the movement constantly protested the lack of equality in hopes to change the ideals of the white leaders. In efforts to suppress the protesting, whites passed several laws attempting to give blacks their full rights. Even then, white employers were reluctant to hire any man of color, which caused unemployment rates to skyrocket. Because of the high unemployment rates, the whites continued to view themselves as superior over every other race. After the blacks were legally “free,” they still faced a plethora of violent acts and segregation. This caused the Civil Rights Movement to