The Civil Rights Movement On The Class Of White Southerners

Four years later, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. In response to Rosa’s arrest, the black community of Montgomery, Alabama established a boycott, which lasted for over a year.

In 1960, there were tremendous of social ferment that was responsible for agitation and protest. Through direct protest, many African Americans, women, and homosexuals were able to gain recognition and break down the walls of discrimination and segregations. Out of the numerous elements that arose in the 1960s, there are three movements that truly affected the American society. Firstly, the rise of the civil rights movement was greatly influenced by racial discrimination of colored people in the South. Secondly, the women’s movement aimed to convince the society that women are capable of achieving and maintaining higher waged job like males. Lastly, the gay rights movement aimed to gain acceptance and stop discrimination of homosexuality. The most significant effect on the development of American society was the women’s movement and how they expanded their economic and political opportunities. The common goal among African Americans, women’s, and homosexuals was to obtain their equal rights as citizens of America and to desegregate all the boundaries between white and black population.

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.

“White Rage,” isn’t about African Americans rebelling against authorities or trying to make a point by doing things to get them into trouble, it’s about Caucasians and their fear of progressing and change. Anderson uses multiple court cases dating back all the way to 1876, United States v. Cruikshank, to show cruelty and unfairness African Americans deal with daily. Anderson uses the court cases to show that the racism issues and rebellion is not due to African American’s not feeling oppressed, but rather than Caucasians feeling fear towards the progression of African American’s and their abilities to change America. Anderson points out the lack of hope in American during this century with the election of Obama. Many people were skeptical about Obama becoming president because he was the very first African American president that America had. Some people were doubtful of the abilities that Obama had because of his race.

“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

Jesse Jackson’s core beliefs and his relevance in history are vital within the understanding of the Civil Rights movement and the equality between races. In his Democratic Speech Jackson stated “My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised. They are restless and seek relief. They've voted in record numbers. They have invested faith, hope and trust that they have in us. The Democratic Party must send them a signal that we care. I pledge my best to not let them down.” Jesse Jackson publicly shared his ideas and opinions on politics and the American government. Jackson’s ideas and his outputs into the world made history and gave the African Americans hope for their future and to get the equality they so desperately deserved.

In chapter seven, “Spirited Away”: Race, Gender, and Murder in Oklahoma During the 1920s, it was about how a small but active group of African Americans appeared and fought for their rights when the twentieth century came around (pg. 135). According the author, when it came to the Jim Crow Laws in Oklahoma, it separated almost every aspect of life into white and colored. A number of them were quickly written into the states’ legal code and were founded on two basic principles. They were that African Americans were individuals that were not capable of success or failure, good or evil, but they were deviant and inferior. They were criminal and ignorant people that intended to harm the white race, and because of that segregation was needed. The second principle, behind the Jim Crow Law, was that because of their moral and cultural superiority, whites had the right to separate themselves from African Americans and to limit their upward mobility. With these laws based on the assumption of African American inferiority creating segregation, crime and race became tangled and intertwined, and many saw vigilantism as a necessary check on black criminality (pg. 136). This, according to the author, asserted white superiority and that African Americans should say under them as an inferior race. As for the lynchings, along with race riots, they became very effective in terms of maintaining political, economic and social subordination of African Americans throughout the country (pg. 136).

Even though Sherriff Tom was a white man who had grown up in Darien, he did not share the same values that the rest of the white citizens of the county did. In the end of chapter one, Greene wrote that most of the citizens in Darien did not miss slavery, but instead “they honor the time before slavery before Africans touched foot on the land.”(Melissa Greene Pg. 19) rather than focusing on the past and vigorously trying to maintain the separation between the races, Tom does not really care, or at least as much as the others do, about a person’s skin color. The only thing that Tom is interested in is money as stated on page fourteen. The Sheriff does not share the same values because he has discovered that by being more inclusive he can maintain his political power and expand his legal and illegal endeavors. In contrast, Ben Alston does share the same values and objectives that the rest of the black community in McIntosh County have. ”They don’t even understand what he was trying to do for them, how he poured his

Civil rights have always been an issue in the American society, which has been proven over the years by all of the prejudice comments made by white people. Negros were forced to drink out of different water fountains, use different bathrooms, and were overall treated as lesser people. Since the creation of the United States negros have either been slaves or segregated throughout our country's history, even today at some places people don't treat African Americans with the respect that they should receive. Even though the change has exceeded tremendously it is still far from perfect. Martin Luther King Junior was a key aspect to our society in pushing towards equality. During the civil rights movement there were many individuals who also helped the cause such as Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, and other significant figures that are well known today. There is a wide variety of feats that our nation as one, needs to surpass in order to be equal.

Describe the white South’s reaction to the initial stages of the civil rights movements. What it all uniform?

The African American group has been seen to have lower status in contrast to white individuals. Today, the stratification or chain of importance contrast between blacks and whites is still present.

For Jesse, that paradigm of the times were morally acceptable, and necessary. He reflected on his past mentors, law enforcers who were implied to keep order by suppressing black individuals. “These men men were his models, they had been friends to his father, and they had taught him what it meant to be a man. He looked to them for courage now. It wasn 't that he didn 't know what he was doing was right- he knew that, nobody had to tell him that; it was only that he missed the ease of former years” (Baldwin, p. 1754). Societal expectations of Jesse moulded his conception of right versus wrong. In his formative years, he felt the need to defend Otis, yet at the time of Jesse’s introspections, he was disgusted by his friendship. It was

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.

Now I will delve into the inner workings of our modern day society, and explain how all these influences creating perceptions creates the racist world we live in today. Today we look around, and many people let out a sigh of relief to see how far the world has come from the times when slavery still existed. It is important to realize how race is important even though it is just a word, and how ones identity can influence how they benefit from this world socially and politically. From the book “The new Jim crow”, Michelle Alexander argues that despite eradicating racist laws and policies like the ones that existed during Jim Crow’s time, there still exists a racial caste system that hides under things like the war on drugs, and leaves black people in a trap that is almost impossible to escape from. Alexander quotes Lerone Bennett

The first chapter, The Rebirth of a Caste, argues that after the Civil Rights movement and with the collapse of Jim Crow in the south, there needed to emerge a new caste system. Alexander argues that racism was created to fulfill particular ends; the profits of the planter class. “Deliberately and strategically, the planter class extended special privileges to poor whites in an effort to drive a wedge between them and black slaves. White settlers were allowed greater access to Native American lands, white servants were allowed to police slaves through slave patrols and militias, and barriers were created so that free labor would not be placed in competition with slave labor. These measures effectively eliminated the risk of future alliances between black slaves and poor whites. Poor whites suddenly had a direct, personal stake in the existence of a race-based system of