The Civil Rights Movement Of The 20th Century

Civil Right Movement The civil Right movement was one of the social movement of the 20th century. The movement was a popular movement to secure African Americans equal access to opportunities for basic privileges and rights in the U.S. In addition, African American men and women along, with the white people organized and led the movement at the national and local levels. They chased their goals through legal means, negotiations, petitions and nonviolent protest demonstrations. However, the movement was one of the largest social movement of the century because it influenced the modern rights and student movement of the 1960s. Furthermore, the civil rights movement centered on south America. A place where the African American population was concentrated and where racial inequality in education, economic opportunity, and legal process was blatant. In brief, the movement primarily addressed three areas of discrimination which are education, voting rights, and racial segregation. The movement addressed the area of education. The U.S supreme court decision Brown v. Board of education of Topeka in Kansas which ushered in a new era in the struggle of civil right. On the other hand, the

By the mid-1960s, however, most eligible blacks in the south remained disfranchised. Even so, African Americans initiated local efforts to exercise the right to vote, but faced strong and sometimes violent resistance from local house. Then, in 1964, U.S congress enacted laws to protect the rights of African Americans to vote. Hence, the voting right suspended literacy test provided for federal approval of proposed changes to voter rights act. It also suspended literacy test provided for federal approval for voting laws. On the whole, the voting right act decreased the voter registration disparity between whites and