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The Importance Of The Civil Rights Movement

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The civil rights movement come into being in the middle of the twentieth century. The push came from African Americans who did not get the same rights as the whites such as equal access to public amenities, equal chances in education, job recruitment and housing, the right to vote and freedom from racial discrimination. The movement was fighting to bring back the right of citizenship to the African Americans after its erosion by segregationist jim crow law. It further led to the reemergence of the judiciary as a defender of personal liberties against the power of the majority. Over time, the movement benefits not only the African Americans but also women, the disabled and other needy groups.
Rosa Parks, a secretary to the national …show more content…

She went ahead to develop Citizenship schools as a strategy in motivating southern blacks by conducting rallies for registration of voters and literacy. The schools' primary achievement was training more than twenty-five thousand people and registration of black voters in the South.
Pauli Murray could not get admission in the University of North Carolina and Harvard because she was an African American female. Consequently, obtained an arrest for going against the bus seating arrangements where blacks sat separately from the whites. Murray was among the organizers of the pure blacks march on of the Washington Movement. During her years as a law student, she was a participant in the debate for the Brown decision. In addition to that, history attributes her to developing the constitutional argument to educate activists on peaceful civil defiance to complain about Jim Crow practices. Murray candidly fought against the discrimination of women by pioneering the Fourteenth Amendment as a tool to debate about the rights of women
Ella Baker was a coauthor of The Bronze Slave Market, which is an article exposing the reasons jobless black female house helps had to trade their labor to the top bidder. The efforts she inputs in creating and strengthening the relations between African American leaders were vital in the struggle for the freedom of the blacks. Baker was responsible for the formation of

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