Civil Rights Movement Paper “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means,” by Ronald Reagan. This quote explains that peace is not a weakness, even if there is no conflict, but it is the ability to handle conflict without violence. During the Civil Rights protests, there were many great strategies used, litigation, civil disobedience, peaceful protest, judicial branch, etc. The Civil Rights Movement was a course of time in which something that is still going on today. The Civil Rights Movement was African Americans trying to gain freedoms to vote, be treated as an equal, eradicate segregation, and end unpaid labor (usually to pay off debt). As the Civil Rights Movement went on its course, many
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Painter. Litigation was used to advance colored citizens’ rights, because African Americans have already been given them from the 13th and 14th amendment which abolished slavery and gave rights to African Americans, after the emancipation proclamation. The meaning behind litigation during the Civil Rights Movement, is that the leaders of colored groups like the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), would do test cases, in which they sent test cases to the Supreme Court to see how (at that time) the Court was going to choose. Within all of these tactics, it eventually payed off when the Civil Rights Act of 1965, which banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment practices and ended unequal application of voter registration, while also ending racial segregation in schools. Another act that was adopted, in result of the all of the protests that were going on, was the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which …show more content…
Ferguson proved to be an effective court case, even though Plessy lost the case, it lead to one of the biggest court cases, which turned into an enormous advantage towards colored rights. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was actually five cases brought from different areas of the South and Border States involving public elementary or high school systems that mandated separate schools for blacks and whites. In Brown, led by Thurgood Marshall, argued that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment made Plessy’s separate-but-equal doctrine unconstitutional, and that if the Court was still reluctant to overrule this court case, the only way to equalize these schools was to integrate. A major component to the lawyer’s strategies was to prove that the intellectual, psychological, and financial damage done to African Americans as a result of segregation prevented any court to find that the separate-but-equal policy was consistent with the intent of the 14th amendment’s equal amendment clause. An enormous point was made with evidence of the harmful consequences of state-imposed racial discrimination, is which the famous doll study was conducted. In this study, white and black children were put into a room with a black/white doll. Both children chose the white dolls, but many added that the black doll looked “bad”. Brown v. Board of Education was without a doubt one of the most important court case to the Civil Rights Movement, in which it pushed the court
Painter. Litigation was used to advance colored citizens’ rights, because African Americans have already been given them from the 13th and 14th amendment which abolished slavery and gave rights to African Americans, after the emancipation proclamation. The meaning behind litigation during the Civil Rights Movement, is that the leaders of colored groups like the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), would do test cases, in which they sent test cases to the Supreme Court to see how (at that time) the Court was going to choose. Within all of these tactics, it eventually payed off when the Civil Rights Act of 1965, which banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment practices and ended unequal application of voter registration, while also ending racial segregation in schools. Another act that was adopted, in result of the all of the protests that were going on, was the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which …show more content…
Ferguson proved to be an effective court case, even though Plessy lost the case, it lead to one of the biggest court cases, which turned into an enormous advantage towards colored rights. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was actually five cases brought from different areas of the South and Border States involving public elementary or high school systems that mandated separate schools for blacks and whites. In Brown, led by Thurgood Marshall, argued that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment made Plessy’s separate-but-equal doctrine unconstitutional, and that if the Court was still reluctant to overrule this court case, the only way to equalize these schools was to integrate. A major component to the lawyer’s strategies was to prove that the intellectual, psychological, and financial damage done to African Americans as a result of segregation prevented any court to find that the separate-but-equal policy was consistent with the intent of the 14th amendment’s equal amendment clause. An enormous point was made with evidence of the harmful consequences of state-imposed racial discrimination, is which the famous doll study was conducted. In this study, white and black children were put into a room with a black/white doll. Both children chose the white dolls, but many added that the black doll looked “bad”. Brown v. Board of Education was without a doubt one of the most important court case to the Civil Rights Movement, in which it pushed the court