Civil Rights Movement: Post World War II Resistance Movement

A resistance movement is a society of gathered individuals that seek to change to things and situations that they believe are unjust. These societies of individuals come together as one to protest and stand up for what they want changed or believe is right in their environment and the world around them. These groups of likeminded people may use violent or nonviolent protest and actions to accomplish their goal of change or something new. Many resistance movements are searching for changes in the government these movements are promoted by the civil population and they may resist the laws of the government. If the civilians are nonviolent during their resistance then it is considered a civil resistance. Resistance movements may include different

This resistance movement was a fight for equality of African Americans, Hispanics, and those of other cultures who were also not being treated equally as the white race. This society of activist were arguing for equitable privileges and rights like the employment, housing, education, the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of racial discrimination. Their United States citizenship which includes a freedom of speech to voice their opinion what they reckon is right was being contested. The civil rights movement tracks all the way back to the beginning of the 19th century but didn’t become that big of a controversy until the 1950’s. Slavery ended in 1865 on December 6th which is the day that the 13th amendment of the United States constitution was ratified. The civil rights movement was worldwide and civilians all over began to protest. They created secret organizations and groups that came together as one to boycott, protest, march and more. Some of these secret organizations and groups included the black panthers, NAACP, national council of negro women, American abolitionism organizations, civil rights congress, national association for the advancement of colored people, negro labor committee and many more. The leaders and activist of the civil

The segregated bus was created to allow the whites to sit in the front of the bus and the seats were marked off as “whites only” when the seats in this section of the bus were full the African Americans were asked to give up their seats so that the whites could have seats and the blacks would be forced to go find other seats in the far back of the bus were marked as “colored only” which were for the African Americans to sit. This bus segregation was later found to be ruled unconstitutional by the U.S supreme court. When Rosa Parks sat in the seat towards the front of the bus she was told to by the bus driver to give up her seat and move to another seat in the back of the bus. Instead of moving as she was instructed Rosa did not give up and seat nor did she move. She sat in silence after she told the bus driver that she was not moving. The bus driver called the police and Rosa was put in hands cuffs and token to jail. Where she stayed for one day after eventually being bailed out. Rosa Parks’ defiance of an unfair segregation law of forcing African Americans to give up their seats for the comfort of whites was the starts and outbreak of the civil rights movement