Civil Rights Protest In The 1960's

The 1960s was the time where protesting boomed in the United States; there were groups all around the country protesting against racism, poverty and militarism in the Unites States. The civil right protests were protesting against racism in the time when the United States was, in a way, segregated. Black people were not treated the same way that white Americans were treated. The protesters were fighting for equality among white Americans and African Americans. The United States has, since then come a long way, but there are still a few things that remain the same. African Americans are not treated as badly as they did in the 1960s; they are able to get more jobs that they were allowed to get in the past and they are better accepted by our society.

Even though we live in a time period where racism should not be an existing issue, the police sometimes do abuse their power, just like in the past. Along with racism, poverty had always been, and continues to be, a part of our society. Many protest in the 1960s were about poverty and the end of poverty. Usually, racism went hand in hand with poverty because employers preferred to higher white people above African Americans, therefore, poverty was higher in African American neighborhoods. Poverty is still a problem nowadays, just as racism. The troubled African American neighborhoods in Baltimore, and all around the United States, are also poor neighborhoods, which have not changed over the years. In Baltimore there is a difference to how the police treat civilians in the upper and middle class white neighborhoods compared to lower class African American neighborhoods, which is shown in the new Time magazine article, “policing in more-affluent white neighborhoods…is almost always more respectful than in poorer black