Essay On The Civil Rights Movement
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The Civil Rights Movement was started because of racial segregation and a fight for equal rights. The Civil Rights Movement lasted 1954-1965. It ended when the president signed the civil rights act and also signed the voting right acts. The voting rights act was when blacks couldn’t vote. Organizations that were involved in the civil rights movement were the NAACP, the SCLC, the SNCC, and the MIA. Martin Luther king was an important role in the civil rights movement because he helped overcome segregation even though he used nonviolence to demonstrate the things he done. Malcolm X didn’t use violence unless it was needed so martin Luther king and Malcolm X had different point of views. The civil rights movement lasted only a year but helped for blacks and ending segregation which was very important because this was one step closer to ending racism. The main people who started the civil rights movement were Emmit Till, The Brown vs. Board cases, and Rosa parks. The point I am trying to prove is that Emmit Till started and or sparked the civil rights movement.
Life before the civil rights movement was okay. Edgar Martin states that he enjoys watching movies but was restricted to sit at the balcony. Martin never rode the bus, while he walked to school the white kids stuck there heads out and called them names. Blacks never got new textbooks they were old books that came from down the street or Mcintosh. Edgar martin saw chain gangs working in front of his house all the guards were white
Brown vs. Board was a fight for equal education. The Supreme Court was involved in these cases. The NAACP was got involved in the brown v board cases. The case was started for fair education because blacks were only allowed to get taught until a certai...
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...g the civil rights movement. If she had never had sat in the front of the bus buses wouldn’t be desegregated and we would still be fighting for equal bus rights. This did not really start the civil rights movement because it was only a minor role during the civil rights movement.
The event that started the civil rights movement was emit tills murder. The three reasons why Emmet tills death played a monumental role in the civil rights movement is that tills death was an endless crime for blacks, discrimination, and blacks wanted to stop the violence through peaceful protest.
Emmitt tills death sparked the civil rights movement because his death was based on discrimination for blacks because he got killed for supposedly flirting with a white women. That is a major reason why Emmitt till was killed because of discrimination.
Blacks wanted to stop the violence because
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the civil rights movement was started because of racial segregation and a fight for equal rights.
- Explains that edgar martin enjoys watching movies but was restricted to sitting at the balcony. martin never rode the bus, while he walked to school the white kids stuck there heads out and called them names.
- Explains that brown vs. board was a fight for equal education. the supreme court and naacp were involved in the case.
- Explains how african americans responded by gaining more momentum. emmet till 14, was kidnapped and shot in the head by two white men. roy bryant and j.w millan were acquitted of all charges.
- Analyzes how emmitt till's death caused a spark in the civil rights movement because blacks thought tills murders were never-ending violence and whites could get away with anything.
- Narrates how people were outraged by tills killers’ acquittal, and the momentum gained from this started the movement everywhere for blacks.
- Analyzes how edgar martin talked about going to the movies and having blacks had a special place to sit, and how he never rode the bus and white people sticking their heads out the window.
- Narrates how rosa parks became secretary of the naps montgomery alabama branch in 1943. she refused to give up her seat to a white man and was charged for violating segregation laws.
- Explains that the montgomery bus boycott was a boycott for african americans to desegregate busses.
- Opines that rosa parks helped the civil rights movement because she helped desegregate buses which helped african americans get a step closer to ending it.
- Explains why emmet tills murder played a monumental role in the civil rights movement. it was an endless crime for blacks, discrimination, and blacks wanted to stop the violence through peaceful protest.
- Explains that emmitt till's death sparked the civil rights movement because his death was based on discrimination for blacks because he got killed for supposedly flirting with a white woman.
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- Explains that the brown v. board of education case was the initiator of the civil rights movement. the naacp challenged the federal law of "separate but equal".
- Describes rosa parks as one of the most inspirational african american leaders that rose from the civil rights movement.
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