Brown V. Boar With The Rise Of Black Power

Civil Rights Essay

Beginning in the 19th century, and peaking during the 1950’s and 1960’s, the Civil Rights Movement began as a plan for African Americans to obtain opportunities as that of their white counterparts. Basic freedoms including full citizenship, fair and equal education and voting rights were among the issues the Civil Rights Movement pursued. African Americans, along with support from some whites, systematized and began a movement towards a better life. Utilizing lawful means, petitions, negotiations and protests, the Civil Rights Movement was not without conflict. African Americans were determined to fully become citizens of the United States and the actions encompassing the Civil Rights Movement would become the foundation where it all would begin. Originating in the southern states of America, as African American populations were largely gathered there and many racial issues were vastly present, inequality issues such as racism, education and economic differences were at their worst. State and local governments passed the Jim Crow laws which imposed segregation among the races, limited them on their right to vote leaving the African American people economically and diplomatically helpless. The United States Supreme Court, in the 1954 case of Brown v.

The new and young activists unhappy with sluggish pace of change began to change to a more “military style” of rioting using violence. Supporters of the Black Power groups began concerning themselves with importance of conserving their African American traditions as well as financial liberation. Around 1975 the Black Power activist groups were beginning to dwindle. Jack Davis wrote in “Civil Rights Movement” that “the Black-Power movement had faded” and “it never gained the full support of the larger African American