Paula T. Maury a Professor of Sociology at Siena College has a specialization in race relations and research methods. His article, “ The Most Righteous White Man in Selma: Father Maurice Ouellet and the Struggle for Voting Rights,” focuses on the affects of Southern Catholics on the civil rights movement. Maury’s supports his thesis thought the study of primary documents relating to Maurice Ouellet life and actions during the march from Selma. He believes that through the study of Ouellet’s life historians can understand the importance of the civil rights movement on the Southern catholic minority.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on March18, 1965 conducted an interview with Meet the Press. The NBC interview has interviewers from different backgrounds asking Dr. King a series of questions about why he supported the march from Selma. His answers explain that despite the cost of human life demonstrations had the power to exact change in the nation. Martin Luther King also lays out why he believes demonstrations are necessary for civil liberties, and what it would take to stop the demonstrations. Since Meet the Press was intended for a national television researchers would have to be weary of whether Martin with accurately describing his own feelings about The Marches from Selma.
“Selma to Montgomery”, a report written by Chuck Stone in the February of 2000, is about African Americans marching together to Montgomery to fight for their equal rights. Even after the freedom summer in 1964, blacks remained unable to vote, but it wasn’t very long until a new project took action. A march across highway 80 from Selma, Dallas to Montgomery was the plan. It took a great deal of courage and determination for them to go through with it, especially since the people of the white race caught them and forced them to halt multiple times, making them end their march. Alabama state troopers confronted the people of colour at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, during their first attempt to march “The troopers began to push them back; marchers
On March 7, 1965, Civil Rights Protestors began the first of three major marches in Selma to campaign for African American voting rights (“Selma Marches”). These peaceful marches were ignited by the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a Civil Rights protestor gunned down by Alabama state police in February of 1965 (“Selma Marches”). Attempting to stop the Civil Rights movement, marchers met opposition from segregationists across the country, including Alabama Governor George Wallace, a famous opponent to desegregation (“Selma Marches”). According to the Chicago Defender, a historically Black newspaper, Alabama state police violently suppressed the marchers, using tear gas and abusive tactics to weaken the crowd (“Terror in Alabama” 8). Despite the violence, the resolve of the
Published in The Campus on March 18, 1965, Professor Korn describes his personal journey to support the cause of the civil rights marchers in Selma. He describes how he met other supporters and would band together along the way to Selma. When he reached Selma, he describes how he felt during Reverend James Reeb’s funeral march and the march that took place on March 9, 1965. Lastly, he describes seeing a hate broadcast condemning the Selma marchers as communist. Reflecting the views of the northern goodwill supporter of the Selma voting rights movement, Korn assets researchers in understanding what it was like for outsiders supporting the cause.
In the journal article titled Legal Control of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Academic scholar Steve E. Barkan summarizes past social and political movements during the Civil Rights Movement. Barker analyzes the success and failures of the movements by referring to two distinct types of social movements “Resource Mobilization” and “Political process” and their responses to white “Legalistic” and “Violent” attacks. Resource Mobilization focuses on how movements gain power by accumulating resources available to them(Unions, Civil rights groups, The Federal government, Northern support). The political process theory explains how groups are inspired to mobilize and how access to the political system is available to everyone. One of the PP
The March from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 caused important advances in the civil rights movement and had a direct impact on legislation dealing with African-American voting rights. In Alabama, there were still many blockades keeping the African-American population from being able to register to vote. Segregation and “The Jim Crow Laws” were still in place in the South during the 1960s. Many people and groups such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played essential roles in the eventual success of protesting for voting rights in Alabama. The Selma to Montgomery Marches not only accomplished their goal of gaining voting rights for African-Americans,
I learned about the civil rights campaign by watching videos about the Civil Rights Movement, reading literature, and looking at photographs. ”1963 Birmingham Civil Rights Campaign” (1963) is a video in which Barbara Sylvia Shores explains the events that happened to her during the Civil Rights Movement. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was written by Martin Luther King Jr. and was about what he wants to see change and how he thinks it should change. “No More_The Children of Birmingham 1963 and the Turning Point of the Civil Rights Movement” (No More) was a video about how the children impacted the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama. The photographs were a series of pictures that showed police brutality.
There have been many movements in the United States in which African Americans have been the focal point for example the Selma March, the March on Washington, the civil rights movement, and even today the Black Lives Matter movement. Those movements have had a significant impact on the United States and still play a part in today’s society. Those movements still play a part in today’s society because without those movements there wouldn’t be a Black Lives Matter because African Americans wouldn’t have the courage to stand up a fight for their rights if it wasn’t for Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, or the many other activists that stood up for African-American rights. Selma and the March on Washington share a big relationship to the Black Lives Matter and they are just as important to the civil rights movement.
In the article, Martin Luther Jr.’s Last March, explains how he was a good man after all he started teaching people that its not very heathy that whites and blacks cant get along, he explain more that white little boys should be playing out with black little boys, and white little girls should be playing with black little girls. Matin Luther Jr. wants to change and describes how we all should be equal and, not just war. Martin Luther Jr.
During the Great Migration, thousands of African Americans moved to Harlem for job opportunities, affordable housing, and to escape the blatant racism of the South. Along the mass immigration, came cultural influences such as blues and jazz music, which had stemmed from African spirituals. Poetry also became a large part of the culture with many poems following similar rhythms as those found in blues music. Writers tackled the theme of racial injustice for the first time and brought a sense of racial identity to the African American community. The writers of the Harlem Renaissance era exhibited strength through their writing that transcended to their communities.
After a fifty mile fight, Selma to Montgomery, African Americans finally reached the finish line, and voting was achievable for all. It was not easy though. After 250 years of slavery the civil war made everyone free. The reconstruction followed, in efforts to make things equal for everyone, but Plessy v. Ferguson was a setback. It started the “separate but equal” concept, and life was segregated for 60 years.
The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that reflected the culture of African Americans in an artistic way during the 1920’s and the 30’s. Many African Americans who participated in this movement showed a different side of the “Negro Life,” and rejected the stereotypes that were forced on themselves. The Harlem Renaissance was full of artists, musicians, and writers who wrote about their thoughts, especially on discrimination towards blacks, such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes. The Harlem Renaissance was an influential and exciting movement, and influenced others to fight for what they want and believed in. The Harlem Renaissance was the start of the Civil Rights Movement.
Introduction The story of the Civil Rights Movements of African Americans in America is an important story that many people knew, especially because of the leadership Martin Luther King Jr. Black people in America, between 1945 and 1970 had to fight for rights because they had been segregated by white people, they didn’t have equal laws compared to white people. So they initiated the Civil Rights Movements to fight for getting equal civil rights.
“Obstacles are barriers and to overcome them is to do whatever it takes to prevent them from stopping you from going where you want to go”. An obstacle is anything that keeps you from achieving your goal; it could be physical, financial or resource limitations. It could be moral opposition or anything that impedes you from comfortably achieving one's goal. Martin Luther King Jr overcame his obstacle in the Movie Selma. He gave Africans Americans the full right to vote.
