The Importance Of The Civil Rights Movement Of 1950s And 1960s
We learned about the importance of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, it was both a social and political movement that was largely fueled by religion in America. It was the fight for the natural freedom of human beings, that was promised through the creation of important documents such as the Bill of Rights and the Constitution as well as the Declaration of Independence, but not ultimately granted and upheld by the United States. The civil rights movement in the words of Martin Luther King Jr. was the salvation of the nation and of mankind, he used religion in pointing out that the people were denied their God-given rights to freedom for over 340 years and that the government was a hypocrite and contradicted itself as it spoke of inalienable rights to life, liberty and equality for all people in those documents that formed the foundation of the nation. It was briefly mentioned this struggle for liberation involved taking a stand against the unjust laws
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Many instances such as the 1959 Non-violent action group from Howard University would be countered with inhumane beatings which followed arrests of the abused protestors for their sit-in demonstrations. The fact of the matter was the protests were met with a campaign of legal harassment and repression, the white authorities wanted to force individuals participating in the civil rights movement to abandon the fight against segregation and suppress the movement. Even so the horrible consequences of the tactics used demonstrated the inequalities of society, it became a tool for the movement, it made the issue of segregation a real issue in America and it was a very emotional issue of morality. The people were aware of the brutality that would follow their fight for freedom and the people chose to take the stand and to display the injustice of the
Many instances such as the 1959 Non-violent action group from Howard University would be countered with inhumane beatings which followed arrests of the abused protestors for their sit-in demonstrations. The fact of the matter was the protests were met with a campaign of legal harassment and repression, the white authorities wanted to force individuals participating in the civil rights movement to abandon the fight against segregation and suppress the movement. Even so the horrible consequences of the tactics used demonstrated the inequalities of society, it became a tool for the movement, it made the issue of segregation a real issue in America and it was a very emotional issue of morality. The people were aware of the brutality that would follow their fight for freedom and the people chose to take the stand and to display the injustice of the