The Civil Rights Movement In The 1960's
The Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement had three main goals: to end segregation, to gain civil rights laws, and for equality for all. The civil rights movement that started in the 1960’s was a success for the African Americans because of their visible protesting, the changing of minds, and laws, and setting the stage for the future generations. However, throughout this long process that still continues today, there were many deaths and misfortunate events that have occurred. Events such as riots, protests, violent encounters, police brutality, changed the path of the civil rights movement.
One of the major factors to the success of the civil rights movement is the names in favor. Throughout the starting years of the movement, the first two presidents Kennedy and Johnson both were on the side of passing the Civil Rights Law. The fact that the presidents greatly supported these ideas had helped to spread the acceptance of these coming laws. Names that were also famously known at the time and still today were Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, two major leaders of the movement. With opposing views of how to go about gaining the Civil Rights the African American people deserved, their voices were heard across …show more content…
Like Rosa Parks and many Volunteers, this was used to bring an end to the Jim Crow laws and ends segregation in public spaces. Once segregation was ended in schools the Little Rock Nine stepped up. They were nine African American Students in Little Rock Alabama who were taken to the school with the goal of graduating them. However, what the governor of Alabama refused to allow the students in, Johnson sent in the Army to escort them into the school. These nine students showed others when they were bullied and discriminated daily by students at the school, that the process of integration was possible, and today we see the results of those nine students in our
The civil rights movement had three main goals: to end segregation, to gain civil rights laws, and for equality for all. The civil rights movement that started in the 1960’s was a success for the African Americans because of their visible protesting, the changing of minds, and laws, and setting the stage for the future generations. However, throughout this long process that still continues today, there were many deaths and misfortunate events that have occurred. Events such as riots, protests, violent encounters, police brutality, changed the path of the civil rights movement.
One of the major factors to the success of the civil rights movement is the names in favor. Throughout the starting years of the movement, the first two presidents Kennedy and Johnson both were on the side of passing the Civil Rights Law. The fact that the presidents greatly supported these ideas had helped to spread the acceptance of these coming laws. Names that were also famously known at the time and still today were Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, two major leaders of the movement. With opposing views of how to go about gaining the Civil Rights the African American people deserved, their voices were heard across …show more content…
Like Rosa Parks and many Volunteers, this was used to bring an end to the Jim Crow laws and ends segregation in public spaces. Once segregation was ended in schools the Little Rock Nine stepped up. They were nine African American Students in Little Rock Alabama who were taken to the school with the goal of graduating them. However, what the governor of Alabama refused to allow the students in, Johnson sent in the Army to escort them into the school. These nine students showed others when they were bullied and discriminated daily by students at the school, that the process of integration was possible, and today we see the results of those nine students in our