Civil Rights Movement Success
How accurate is the view that the civil rights movement was very successful in the period 1957-1965?
The period of 1957 – 1965 was both a lively, and a stagnant time for the civil rights movement, with many protests coming to action like the Greensboro Sit Ins, which made large progress to desegregation and equality for black people. Success from these protests, however, came later in this period as momentum in the civil rights groups was being built. Yet, this time for the civil rights movement was not all a success, with operations such as the Albany campaign causing more failure than success due to the strategic planning from strong southern racists.
The Freedom Rides of the early 1960’s, and particularly the Freedom Rides of 1961, became …show more content…
On the 25th of March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of non violent demonstrators, both black and white, to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery after a five day trek from Selma. The marchers, who were a coalition of the SNCC, SCLC and many others, were fighting for equal voting rights. As the marchers went towards Montgomery, they were stopped at the Pettus Bridge by a police blockade, led by a strong and violent racist sheriff called Jim Clark. Fifty of the marchers were hospitalised after the police decided to use tear gas, whips and clubs against them. The media dubbed this ‘Bloody Sunday’ and it got great national attention. An outcry from non racist American citizens gained the Civil Rights Movement great sympathy, and it was the catalyst for pushing through the Voting Rights act of 1965 through. This Voting Rights Act allowed southern blacks to vote, and all literacy tests, poll taxes and other requirements which thinned the number of blacks to vote, were made …show more content…
The Albany Campaigns were formed on the 17th of November, 1961, by representatives from the Student Non violent Coordinating Committee, also known as the SNCC, and other organisations such as the NAACP, The Negro Voters League and The Ministerial Alliance. King and the SCLC joined the movements for a short time, which gained media attention. The Movement aimed to end all forms of racial segregation in the city, focusing mostly on desegregating travel facilities, forming a permanent biracial committee to discuss further desegregation, and to release jailed peaceful protesters. The Albany Movement was successful in the respect that it started protests in the December of 1961, but it did not secure many concrete gains and contributed marginally to the Civil Rights Movement in this
The period of 1957 – 1965 was both a lively, and a stagnant time for the civil rights movement, with many protests coming to action like the Greensboro Sit Ins, which made large progress to desegregation and equality for black people. Success from these protests, however, came later in this period as momentum in the civil rights groups was being built. Yet, this time for the civil rights movement was not all a success, with operations such as the Albany campaign causing more failure than success due to the strategic planning from strong southern racists.
The Freedom Rides of the early 1960’s, and particularly the Freedom Rides of 1961, became …show more content…
On the 25th of March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of non violent demonstrators, both black and white, to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery after a five day trek from Selma. The marchers, who were a coalition of the SNCC, SCLC and many others, were fighting for equal voting rights. As the marchers went towards Montgomery, they were stopped at the Pettus Bridge by a police blockade, led by a strong and violent racist sheriff called Jim Clark. Fifty of the marchers were hospitalised after the police decided to use tear gas, whips and clubs against them. The media dubbed this ‘Bloody Sunday’ and it got great national attention. An outcry from non racist American citizens gained the Civil Rights Movement great sympathy, and it was the catalyst for pushing through the Voting Rights act of 1965 through. This Voting Rights Act allowed southern blacks to vote, and all literacy tests, poll taxes and other requirements which thinned the number of blacks to vote, were made …show more content…
The Albany Campaigns were formed on the 17th of November, 1961, by representatives from the Student Non violent Coordinating Committee, also known as the SNCC, and other organisations such as the NAACP, The Negro Voters League and The Ministerial Alliance. King and the SCLC joined the movements for a short time, which gained media attention. The Movement aimed to end all forms of racial segregation in the city, focusing mostly on desegregating travel facilities, forming a permanent biracial committee to discuss further desegregation, and to release jailed peaceful protesters. The Albany Movement was successful in the respect that it started protests in the December of 1961, but it did not secure many concrete gains and contributed marginally to the Civil Rights Movement in this