No matter your social status or how powerful you feel you are, we are all equal. We came here by birth and will leave in death. The time of period of the Civil RIghts movement is one that will never be forgotten based off the fact of the horrible happenings. Many African Americans struggled terribly based off of racial issues. The movements that took over, the leaders that pushed forth strongly, and the organizations that stood out started in small protests for rights. Throughout all of the Americas in that time period was racism. There were many heroic figures that stood up for their rights, such as Martin Luther King junior. This man spoke of what he believed, of what he wanted for himself as much as everybody. Finally after many horrendous
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The cruel people of America in this shameful time wanted African Americans to be kept in their place in society. The blacks would only get the lowest paying jobs, so they could barely afford the most basic needs for life. To help keep them poor they were kept uneducated for a time. If a coloured boy was educated he would be in danger. “In 1945, the two areas where segregation and racism was most obviously applied was in housing and in education. In the southern states, the African Americans lived in the poorest areas with the worst facilities.” Although slavery was outlawed through our nation after the civil war there was not many benefits for the colored people of America. Through protests there were segregation laws passed for blacks and whites to be separated. The blacks wanted equal rights and opportunities, but they struggled due to the fact that there were that wanted things the way they were before the war. Clayborne Carson a news writer for Encyclopaedia Britannica wrote “Although the passage in 1964 and 1965 of major civil rights legislation was victorious for the movement, by than militant black activists had begun to see their struggle as a freedom or liberation movement not just seeking civil rights reforms. Through this terrible time it was illegal to sale houses to black people in certain area zones. There were places referred to as the “hood” where they could live in a type of black …show more content…
During the time of the Civil Rights movement blacks were kept poor and uneducated so they could not get good jobs. African Americans could barely afford the basic needs of life. The colored were kept in most things with different parks, schools and even neighborhoods. The zones colored people lived in were referred to as the “hood”. Throughout this era there was all kinds of physical racism. One particular form was lynching, but lynching was was an open to the public murder by law. Almost always the crime was false towards a black man, very rarely was a white man killed for his crimes at a lynching. A group of people formed into what is called the Klu Klux Klan and there were completely against blacks. This group would do unspeakable things to these poor souls of America. During the great depression every black
The cruel people of America in this shameful time wanted African Americans to be kept in their place in society. The blacks would only get the lowest paying jobs, so they could barely afford the most basic needs for life. To help keep them poor they were kept uneducated for a time. If a coloured boy was educated he would be in danger. “In 1945, the two areas where segregation and racism was most obviously applied was in housing and in education. In the southern states, the African Americans lived in the poorest areas with the worst facilities.” Although slavery was outlawed through our nation after the civil war there was not many benefits for the colored people of America. Through protests there were segregation laws passed for blacks and whites to be separated. The blacks wanted equal rights and opportunities, but they struggled due to the fact that there were that wanted things the way they were before the war. Clayborne Carson a news writer for Encyclopaedia Britannica wrote “Although the passage in 1964 and 1965 of major civil rights legislation was victorious for the movement, by than militant black activists had begun to see their struggle as a freedom or liberation movement not just seeking civil rights reforms. Through this terrible time it was illegal to sale houses to black people in certain area zones. There were places referred to as the “hood” where they could live in a type of black …show more content…
During the time of the Civil Rights movement blacks were kept poor and uneducated so they could not get good jobs. African Americans could barely afford the basic needs of life. The colored were kept in most things with different parks, schools and even neighborhoods. The zones colored people lived in were referred to as the “hood”. Throughout this era there was all kinds of physical racism. One particular form was lynching, but lynching was was an open to the public murder by law. Almost always the crime was false towards a black man, very rarely was a white man killed for his crimes at a lynching. A group of people formed into what is called the Klu Klux Klan and there were completely against blacks. This group would do unspeakable things to these poor souls of America. During the great depression every black