The Civil Right Movement And The Civil Rights Movement

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.

During the 1950s until the 1970s, civil society protests in the United States of America formed a basis for many socially, politically and economically fuelled movements. The Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement are among the most notable of such civil protest movements. These movements aimed to improve the conditions of the Black community in North America after centuries of subjection to discrimination, oppression, segregation and racist policies stemming from the societal practices that originated during slavery in the US. Both the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement shared similar general aims in that both movements focused on the liberation of Black people from their oppressors; however each movement had distinct

    The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution set out to guarantee the equal rights of citizens. It decrees, “No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property...nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”. Despite this written assertion of seeming equality for all citizens, various groups faced hardships and discrimination in the century following the Fourteenth Amendment's ratification. This amendment would continuously interpreted and reinterpreted as social movements cited it as cause for their mobilization and activism. Two social advocacy movements were (and are) the Civil Rights movement that gained momentum in the 1960s and the Disability Rights Movement of the 1970s.

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.

Despite the best intentions of the famed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to promote non-violent change the civil rights movement of today is now one of violence and hate. The grass-root organization was founded by three Black women and consists of 26 chapters across the United States. The women leaders Garza, Cullors, and Tometi were passionately steadfast in their plight to end current racism and social injustices against the Black community. However, although the legitimacy of the group’s plight is valid, and many Americans sympathize with their cause and purpose, many do not agree with the group’s strategies of solving crimes against the Black community. The hatred and violent practices by the “Black Lives Matter” groups have caused many that would support the cause to turn against retarding the progression of the civil rights

There was a time when social classes were most easily identified through material goods and possessions. Whether wealth was gained through inheritance or hard work, it was the luxury items that made the most visible and tangible statement regarding a person’s social status. Men could rely on a large house or expensive car to proclaim the success they had earned. It was much more common to see women adorned in jewels, designer clothes, and furs as symbols of her upper class status. The extravagance of a woman’s appearance was a reflection of the success of her husband, so it was natural to indulge her desire for expensive material possessions.

In the haze of these atrocities, movements like Black Lives Matter have successfully used the hate and fear that African-Americans have against the men in blue to “make

During the 20th century, male and females were not being treated equally a lot of women started getting mad because they weren’t getting jobs or the right to vote as men, so it led to the Civil Rights Movement, the Equal Rights Amendment was involved, because women weren’t treated equally or given the same rights as males. The Civil RIghts Movement was when there was a lot of racism and black and white people weren’t given the same rights, it was unfair to the black because they couldn’t do so many things like vote and also there was sex discrimination. In 1923, Alice Paul, leader and founder of the National Woman’s Party, considered that ERA should be the next step in the 19th Amendment in granting equal justice under the law to both sexes, male and female, in the U.S. Alice Paul said “ We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.” A text from the amendment said “Equal of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

The civil rights movement and the black lives movement were very important movement. I believe that the civil rights movement was a little bit more effective than the black lives matter movement. The civil rights movement had strong leaders, such as Martin Luther King that everyone followed so they could stand up against the system. From the beginning of the 50s and the Emmit Till days the civil rights movement still stuck with non-violence to show that us African Americans are bigger than that.

With the winning of the Civil War still in the minds of many, conducting interviews of previous slaves intrigued those wanting to know what it was like being a slave. With the interview there is a look inside the life of, a woman still in her childhood, what her life was like, and how she dealt with being a slave. The life of a slave was no easy feat, but with perseverance many made it to the wars end, although life still has many hardships for the Freedman today.

Until the 19th century, no abortion laws existed in the United States of America. By the 1880s, most states had banned abortion except in cases where it was necessary to save the mother’s life. The cause of this shift in attitude can largely be attributed to the American Medical Association, founded in 1847. The organization wanted to stop unlicensed abortions by forcing the people giving them out of business. Religious leaders supported the American Medical Association’s move and worked with them to lead campaigns that would make abortions illegal. It was only in the 1960’s that these strict laws were reconsidered. The civil rights movement seeking equal treatment for black Americans led to women’s rights organizations seeing

Hook : 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.

Throughout American history there has been some degree of racism that its citizens must face. Two of the key points for racism in America is the Civil War and Civil Rights Movement. Although granted freedom, African Americans are still treated unequally. During the mid-1900s, many African Americans began to rise against the oppression in many different ways. Along with the violent protests, there was also many who chose to use their freedom of voice and written word. In fact, the most well known activists of the movement were those who chose to protest peacefully. The Civil Rights Movement era produced some of the most historically significant poetry. During this time, African Americans used any type of source they had to speak on how they

Since the late 19th century, the efforts of protest and activism have been more focused on the expansion of individual freedoms for minority groups and those who faced significant discrimination rather than equality for all people. Individual freedom is the right of every citizen in the United States and signifies that every person has a right to freely express themselves, move about the country, and have assurance of the security of their private property, among other things. The principal examples of this shift in focus to advancing individual freedoms are the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Rights Movement. Each of these movements was spurred by a group of people taking a stand against being refused their human rights.

Citizens that reside in the United States of America are starting to question if democracy is worth fighting for. This is because people with government jobs can break the laws and not receive punishment. While a regular citizen would be punished immediately. Minorities still suffer with equality in the United States. 2 Civil liberties and civil rights play in important role in this country. “Civil liberties are the fundamental individual right of a free society, such as freedom of speech and the right to a jury trial, which in the United states are protected by the bill of rights” (Patterson126). Equal rights or also known as civil rights are the right of every person to equal protection under the laws and equal access to society’s opportunities and public facilities (Patterson 158).