The Civil Rights Movement : A Black Man Who Looked White Named Homer Plessy

of our fundamental rights. This amendment extends the due process procedure to all citizens when trying to deprive them of life, liberty, or property. The amendment also ensures that everyone born in the United States or naturalized is guaranteed citizenship. This helped grant the right to vote for many americans who before were excluded from this right. It was ratified on july 9th in 1868 following the civil war along with 13th and 15th amendment. These are known as the civil war amendments and

laws were wrong because of the idea that it was okay to be separate but equal. Black people were allowed to vote, attend school, and were basically offered all of the same opportunities as a White person...right? Wrong. This might have been true if you were African American and lived in Union (Northern) states, but in the Confederate (Southern) states, African Americans were not treated the same. In the south, Black and White people were separate, but in no way equal. In order for someone to understand

The civil rights movement in the United States was the start of a political and social conflict for African-Americans in the United States to gain their full rights in the country, and to have the same equality as white Americans. The civil rights movement was a challenge to segregation, the laws and ordinances that separated blacks and whites. This movement had the goal to end racial segregation against the black Americans of the United States. Many different acts and campaigns of civil resistance

in the Civil Rights Act being passed. These cases however weren’t the only catalysts that forced the Supreme Court to question the wording of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and neither were they the only pivotal cases that changed the way America as a whole looked at the black community and how to interact with them. The Plessy vs Ferguson case was one of the first cases that segregation came into question within the Supreme Court. The case involved a man named Homer Plessy, who at the

Montgomery bus boycott changed the way people lived and reacted to each other. The American civil rights movement began a long time ago, as early as the seventeenth century, with blacks and whites all protesting slavery together. The peak of the civil rights movement came in the 1950's starting with the successful bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama. The civil rights movement was lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached nonviolence and love for your enemy. "Love your enemies, we do not mean to

people that were white had opinions of free and voting African Americans. Few accepted them as equal and free. Although some white Americans welcomed them, others used people’s ignorance, racism, and self-interest to sustain and spread racial divisions. Hence the African Americans were treated as a second citizen and kept to a lower level. The Southern States where most black African Americans lived started enacting literally tests, tax polls, elaborate registration systems, and all-white democratic