The Pre-Civil Rights Movement By Charles White

Title: The Civil Rights Movement: A Historical Analysis of the Increasing Racial Factors in the Emergence of Intersectional Feminist Theory and Union Organizing for Women of Color

In Bruce Ackerman’s book The Civil Rights Revolution, he argues that this revolution amounted to constitutional change via extra-constitutional means. The main argument in this book is how it is extremely difficult to change the Constitution. In order to change the Constitution formally through Article V Amendments, there is a long process that is difficult to overcome. In order to get an amendment proposed, two thirds of the House of Representatives and two thirds of the Senate need to vote in favor of the amendment. To get that amendment ratified and put into action, three fourths of the states need to vote in favor of the amendment. This means that if thirteen states do not like this amendment, the amendment will not pass.

Black Movements In America is written by Cedric J. Robinson, who is a professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Robinson traces the emergence of Black political cultures in the United States from slave resistance in the sixteenth and seventeenth century to the civil rights movement of the present. He also focuses on Black resistance which was forged from a succession of quests such as The return to Africa; escape and alliances with anti-colonial Native- American resistance; and eventually emigration. This is a historical primer whose subject matter is well-indicated by the title. The Narrative focuses on the chronological poles of robinson 's ranging, chronological and compelling narrative of movements in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries maroon societies, and urban community organized during the 'late ' years of black power movements.

Henry Louis Gates’ admiration and following of great civil rights movement leaders, including his mother, seems to show that he has an optimistic position on history and social change in his book “Colored People”. Throughout the beginning chapters he is shown growing up noticing the contract between his mother’s view and the rest of the Colemans. She would stand up to white people. He admired her spark and vitality, whished to grow up in a world where he can see his mother treated with the respect she deserves. Freedom from the chains of segregation was his goal, most notably his adventures during his college years. He was dating a white girl and was also going to extreme lengths to make sure Piedmont becomes unsegregated. Growing up he sees the flame within his mother diminishing. This occurrence doesn’t phase his determination, the contrary; he decides to resurrect his mother’s passion. He attempts that by helping his father buy her a house, since she always wanted to own property. He seems to also believe that the arc of history curves, no matter how many curves it takes it, towards justice. He at least did throughout his adolescence years.

“The History of White People”, is a book written by Nell Irvin Painter. My first impression was very wrong. From the title, I expected a documentary type video about white culture; honestly, I expected the video to concentrate mostly on the historical time period when slavery existed. However, the video is Nell Irvin Painter reading from the beginning, and ends of her book. Rather than the video being about a certain historical time period, it is a literal adaptation of the title. The book is about how the “white race” came about; it discusses how certain ethnicities, and races came to be considered white, or Caucasian. I believe the book probably contains a lot more history, however she skipped over most of that and touched on the main points.

The intelligent civil rights activist Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland on February 1818. His born given name, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, seemed to be a fairytale name to an unusual life because his father was a white planation owner who was most likely Douglass 's first slave master, named Captain Anthony. Possibly it was Harriet Bailey who gave her son Frederick such a distinguished name wishing that his life would be superior than hers. His mother couldn’t imagine that her son 's life would continue to be a foundation of awareness and motivation for all abolitionists. It would be hard to find anyone who symbolizes the Black History Month theme, like Frederick Douglass when he fled the terrors of slavery to relish a life of liberty and freedom, but his exceptional personal ambition to attain justice and freedom for slaves and all Africans led him to dedicate his life to the abolition of slavery and the crusade for civil rights. His outrageous oratory skills and unexpected achievements shaped a legacy that leads his inspiration across the centuries, making Frederick Douglass a role model for the rest of eternity, especially to those who saw him as savior like figure. When it comes to slave history in America, Frederick Douglass should be the first name to pop into your head.

After the 1960s Civil Rights Movement led by African Americans, many Native Americans also were motivated to gain civil rights for themselves. After they were forced to live on reservations, and things were getting worse for them, such as poverty, low employment, and poor education. They were not even permitted to vote even though they were born in the country. It wasn’t until 1958 that they were allowed to vote in every state. Native Americans were ready for change during this movement. A big step in helping Native Americans during the Civil Rights Movement was the Indian Civil Act Right of 1968. This law guaranteed a lot of the rights that are also in the Bill of Rights. Also before this time in 1961 an organization called the National Indian

White’s purpose to his artwork was for black people to take pride in their culture. One work of his Study Wall shows a young black woman looking confidently at the viewer. He portrayed the black people in his works with the dignity and respect they deserved. He didn’t want his people to feel the same way he did as a kid, instead enjoying who they were with pride ("African American Artist: Charles W. White,

Ten years after Fairclough article, another author continues the discussion of historians and their attempt to analysis the civil rights movement. Charles W. Eagles’ article “Toward New Histories of the Civil Rights Era” provides further supporting evidence that scholars fail to analyze the movement to its fullest potential. Eagles utilizes diplomatic historian John Lewis Gaddis analogy of historians studying the cold car. According to Gaddis, cold war scholars “reflected the contemporaneous debates rather than viewing them with the detachment that comes after the end of an era; they viewed events from the inside instead of from the outside … Many scholars did not know how to get perspective on foreign policy because they had never experienced anything but the cold war.” Both Gaddis and Eagles contend that conducting an outside looking inward study of a particular subject matter becomes difficult when you lack the personal experience of a world apart from the movement. With the end of the cold war, Gaddis expects (hopes) the historiography to revert to a normal history. Those studying the civil rights movement will continue to report what Gaddis calls “abnormal history” because most scholars refuse to admit to its end. They contend, “They cannot, and do not want to, declare the struggle to be ‘over’ because racial discord has not ended and racial justice has not been achieved.” Eagles believes that recent scholarships suggest a richer historiography

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.

It is impossible to understand the Civil Rights movement without properly separating fact from popular belief. Many of the images that are part of our collective memory as Americans are of Dr. Martin Luther King have delivered his 'I have a dream' speech, or of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus. The civil rights movement was an intense war and a fierce revolution filled with violence and many deaths in which Blacks rose up and fight for their freedom. Consequently, many history students tend to fall into the trap of seeing the civil rights movement from the top down, mainly focused on the leadership of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, instead of the bottom up, while disregarding the millions of people who labored in the

Neil Young is telling the world that the civil rights movement is here to stay and Alabama needs to get rid of segregation , and let there be freedom for everyone in any color in Alabama.

Black Americans were discriminated against on a daily basis creating all sorts of difficulties in life, so the Civil Rights movements in the 1950s sparked optimism in many Black Americans.

The Civil Rights Movement of the 50's and 60's was arguably one of the most formative and influential periods in American history. Hundreds of thousands of civil rights activists utilized non violent resistance and civil disobedience to revolt against racial segregation and discrimination. The Civil Rights Movement began in the southern states but quickly rose to national prominence. It is of popular belief that the civil rights movement was organized by small groups of people, with notable leaders like—Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, and even John F. Kennedy—driving the ship. That is partly correct. The Civil Rights Movement, in its truest form, was hundreds of thousands of people organizing events and protests,

The American declaration of independence stated, that: “All men are created equal”. But in the 19th century only whites were born with equal opportunities. Africans were imported as slaves and had to work on the fields of the whites. Until 1865 the Negroes were treated and looked at as something lower than human. They were compared to apes, and therefore just owned the same rights as animals. They were raised believing that whites were superior. It took them years to realize that they have to stand up for their rights. The uprising turned into a brutal civil war.