Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1975

Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1975

1) How did the civil rights movement change between 1945 and 1975?

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Black Americans had a very tough time, there were lots of things they

couldn’t do just because of the colour of their skin. In the southern

states of America racism was just an everyday experience for black

people. The civil rights movement in the United States was a

political, legal, and social struggle that was organized by black

Americans with some help from white America. The civil rights struggle

was aimed at gaining full citizenship and racial equality for all

Americans, particularly the most discriminated group, African

Americans, and was a challenge to segregation.

The “Jim Crow” laws, were enforced in seventeen southern states of the

USA, this was when black people were segregated everyday things like

parks, buses and schools. Just because they were a different colour

they had been cut-of from using facilities, that white people were

able to use everyday. These are some of the laws that were enforced: “No

person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in

wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which Negro

men are placed,” that was in Alabama and most southern states. “It

shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white

person. Any marriage in violation of this section shall be void,” that

was a law in most places. “The children of white and coloured races

committed to the houses of reform shall be kept entirely separate from

each other,” in Kentucky and also other states. “The prison warden

shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments fo...

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how would Lyndon Johnson of known? Lyndon then done his best to make

something that would help their future life. Without all three of them

civil rights may not of changed much or maybe even more, but Malcolm X

who had made himself who he is today, done all the threatening which

did work in a way as something that he had dreamed of had come out and

civil rights had been dealt with and they would now be equal to the

white man. Martin Luther King, who went on his own instinct to become

a hero the peaceful one as he didn’t respond to threats and pain they

looked stronger and as if they deserved to be treated fairly. Lyndon

Johnson, made president, had made all the decisions and as he was on

their side all the decisions were right, so with out all three of them

who knows how bad life for black people couldn’t of been.