CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
According to our lecture notes and packets given to us in History class, there were many times where non-white folks were murdered, treated unfairly, and even enslaved. When slavery was abolished, that was only one tiny step into what was needed to be accomplished, and that simmered the water to make new issues! When blacks became free, more restrictions were being put onto africans then ever before. Signs were put up saying they can only use certain types of water fountains and laundromats, movie theaters, restaurants, and locations to sit in the buses. The term used for all of those horrific things is called Segregation. Segregation was madly widespread throughout the south of the United States. Jim Crow laws were the cause of this crisis, and yet, people did really nothing about them. Eventually inspiring figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and John Fitzgerald Kennedy came into power. They were both killed for what they stood for, which was equality. Not just stopping slavery. The civil rights movement was lead by Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, SNCC, an anti-segregation movement. The civil rights movement in a way is still going on today, with all of these police/african shootings that are going on, people are believing that we are gonna be put back into a battle between civil rights and equality with the United States Government and Federal District. Evidence of a new Civil Rights movement happening again is very high, because we have had more protesting this year since 1998.
According to our lecture notes and packets given to us in History class, there were many times where non-white folks were murdered, treated unfairly, and even enslaved. When slavery was abolished, that was only one tiny step into what was needed to be accomplished, and that simmered the water to make new issues! When blacks became free, more restrictions were being put onto africans then ever before. Signs were put up saying they can only use certain types of water fountains and laundromats, movie theaters, restaurants, and locations to sit in the buses. The term used for all of those horrific things is called Segregation. Segregation was madly widespread throughout the south of the United States. Jim Crow laws were the cause of this crisis, and yet, people did really nothing about them. Eventually inspiring figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and John Fitzgerald Kennedy came into power. They were both killed for what they stood for, which was equality. Not just stopping slavery. The civil rights movement was lead by Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, SNCC, an anti-segregation movement. The civil rights movement in a way is still going on today, with all of these police/african shootings that are going on, people are believing that we are gonna be put back into a battle between civil rights and equality with the United States Government and Federal District. Evidence of a new Civil Rights movement happening again is very high, because we have had more protesting this year since 1998.