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Civil Rights Inequality

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Uncertainty in regard to the American government is something many citizens feel at all times, even in today’s world. This uncertainty did not come to be without a reason. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the restricting makeup of government made for a force that was preventing greater inclusion and equality among all racial and ethnic groups, primarily African Americans. This system of operations piloted a legacy of segregation, comprising of the denial of civil and political rights on the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender. The ongoing disparity among the population is what pushed forth for the implementing of the civil rights era, an era where minorities convene to work toward equal rights for everyone. Civil and political rights are a set …show more content…

We would assume that in our diversified society, these rights and freedoms are being extended to everyone without question. However, we face the matter of classifying ourselves based on a group we associate with, whether that be race, ethnicity, or gender. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, these classifications served as a powerful driving force to the inequality many faced. The inequality existed in two forms, inequality of opportunity and inequality of outcome. The first, inequality of opportunity, makes its way into practicality when laws or government decisions are the main driving force for widening social inequality. Inequality of opportunity is detrimental toward minorities, as the government is usually composed of the majority population. This existed greatly during the pre-civil rights era, as the white men of America were the majority of the population and also the majority of politicians. We see this mostly as an influence on the Jim Crow Laws. The Jim Crow Laws were a set of law that sanctioned the segregation of colored people or minorities from whites in public spaces. The

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