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The 14th and 15th Amendment of the Constitution was founded with the express purpose of setting the base of a guaranteed equal protection of the laws to all. With this, the intent was to establish equality in terms of race after the Civil War. Although the law was made to end racism it did not change the attitudes of those in the south. The amendments did not apply immediate protection of black American rights; in fact, their rights were challenged by segregation and discrimination. The civil rights movement was necessary to fight against the struggle for social justice and racial equality because of the lack of protection of black people’s rights and the southern white people challenging their rights. The U.S used the Cold War’s theme, “freedom” …show more content…

The Double V. Campaign, emphasized by Black American Leaders, was a pledge that highlighted the victory over Japan and Germany and the potential victory of ending racism and segregation within the United States (895). The Double V. Campaign stresses that the United States cannot fight for the equal and free world if Black American citizens live in segregated areas and face racism on an everyday basis. The African Americans, fight for freedom led them to see the evident lack of freedom within at their home country. A. Philip Randolph was a black labor leader, who saw the inequality within the workforce and as a result initiated the March on Washington. Attached to the march was a list of demands that ranged from the dismantling of segregation and laws against lynching (894). In the fear of riots or violence, President Roosevelt issued the “Executive Order 8802”, which entailed equal and fair employment. The Defense Industries were desegregated after A. Philip Randolph threatened a march on Washington. The federal agency, FEPC, advocated for equality for black Americans, they obtained jobs for black workers (895). In addition to the creation of the FEPC was the NAACP and CORE which were founded on the basis of advocating for equality for people of color and fought to make America for inclusive. CORE initiated sit-ins with the invention of integrated public areas, such as theaters and diners. The fight for civil rights did not end at the end of Wolrd War II, instead, the movement continued into the Cold

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To answer these questions, the 14th and 15th amendments were added to the Constitution. The 14th Amendment established citizenship to those who were born in the United States, which overturned the Dred Scott Case of 1857, which declared African Americans could not be citizens. This Amendment granted said citizenship, as well as clauses within the amendment that outlawed states from infringing on the guaranteed rights of citizens, regardless of their race, gender, or creed. African Americans were also counted as a whole person, not 3/5ths of a person. In addition to citizenship, this amendment set the stage for the passage of the 15th amendment.

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Randolph Phillip paid a considerable amount of attention to the discriminatory acts towards those of a different ethnicity. To American Negroes, the racial discrimination in government departments led to denial of jobs in government defense projects. It is widespread Jim-Crowism in the armed forces of the Nation. This curiosity and love for change would soon lead to the infamous march of 1941 March on Washington. Declaring and demanding a change in banning and fixing regulations when it came to discrimination against those of ethnic background.

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Annabelle Wintson Bower History 8A March 12, 2018 Title Although the slavery was abolished in 1865, the rights given to African Americans were not nearly equal to those of white Americans. After slavery was abolished, inequality in American society ran high, and many laws were put in place to restrict the rights and abilities of African Americans. Some laws include the Jim Crow Laws (1870 to 1950s) and the Supreme Court Ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that ruled that there could be “separate but equal” facilities and services for people of color and white Americans.

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The 14th amendment was written after the Civil War to protect Naturalized citizens of their rights and equal protection of the law. The amendment resolves the legal status of former slaves, even though there was still a lot of confusion over newly freed slaves African Americans were still restricted in the southern states. Black children weren’t allowed to attend schools with white children because of the segregation laws but after a lawsuit was filed 1954 Brown v. board of education, the separate but equal is unequal, so the segregation laws were abolished in 1964 by the Civil Rights Act. The 14th amendment gave way too many legal rights to the Americans people to proof to the Government and State that all no matter the race have rights to

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Moreover, throughout the large crowds that were planning to join the march, all of them were determined to solve and bring an end to the ongoing inequality. Because of this determination, crowds grew larger to the point where all the news surrounding this subject would state, “100,000 people were planning to march and only the passage of an executive order to ban all racial discrimination in the war industries and armed forces could prevent the march and satisfy the African American community.” (Knauer) Through any roadblocks that the people may have encountered while trying to make the March on Washington happen, they made it very clear that they would do whatever it took and persist for this event to occur. The March on Washington achieved many things, however, it also played a crucial role in solving countless economic rights

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African Americans suffered way more just to get here were they are now. The African Americans used several methods to gain equal rights including protesting, sit-ins, and boycotting. Because the Southern states did not want to end segregation and did not want to grant equal rights to blacks, they imposed barriers like, spraying water at them, abusing them, separate facilities, and trying their best to avoid them from having equal rights. There have been many movements that have changed the way in which people have lived but the Civil Rights Movement was more than just a peaceful protest it was a whole march of African Americans doing best to achieve equal rights.

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The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the creation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment abolished slavery, giving all citizens “equal rights under the law” (United States Senate). However, even under the law, a majority of Americans disregarded the mantle of the legislations and continued to exploit the African American community for their skin color and their past history as former slaves. The American people overlooked these legislations because there was no strict law enforcement or cultural awareness of their wrongdoings. Ultimately, these discriminatory actions and negligence of Americans led to the Civil Rights Movement. The objective of this social movement was to cease racial discrimination and segregation and provide African Americans with legal protection of their rights in the Constitution.

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Throughout the 1900’s, Many eras of civil rights movements emerged for different races, genders, and creeds because they believed they deserved better treatment than they were given by an opposing community. Although America claims to be a land of freedom and of many equalities, history has a timeline of making it evident that America has been opposed to specific communities, yet these communities have fought through blood, sweat, and tears in order to give us the rights we sometimes take for granted today. Through the LGBTQ community’s battles, the Civil Rights Movement in the 60’s, and the Japanese’s battles for equality during World War II, America was forced to reflect on the present, unequal rights and change the way the country operated

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Randolph’s job was to brainstorm ideas and gather support politically so this march can gain publicity to spark controversy inside the White House to change these conditions that blacks have been suffering. In the process of the 1963 March on Washington, he called on a closed-door conference in Washington D.C in 1956. The topic that was necessary to discuss was the Southern Manifesto of 1956 (or known as the Declaration of Constitutional Principles) that was signed by 82 Representatives and 19 Senators, that refuted the Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka (KS) decision as an abuse of judicial power and for people to halt on desegregation of schools (“The Southern Manifesto of 1956.” ). Not only that legislative action, but also the President Dwight D. Eisenhower himself, because he was slowly enforcing integration because he did not want to lose Republican Southern voters. The meeting after in 1957 was with Randolph Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr., and Roy Wilkins who was the new head of the NAACP, to propose on a way to draw attention to the atrocious conditions the blacks have suffered in the

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Followers exercised their rights to protest racial discrimination in employment, segregated public schooling, and demanded minimum wage for all workers. Being the largest gathering in history, pressure was growing on a national level for the President John F Kennedy (JFK) to push for the civil rights laws to pass. King’s idealism and national attention brought to the March on Washington helped the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act, “banned discrimination in employment and public accommodations based on, ‘race, color, religion, or national origin.”

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The 15th amendment aimed to give more federal protection to former slaves. Specifically, this amendment gave all male citizens, including former slaves the right to vote. Next, this other civil rights act granted equal rights to whites and African Americans in all public locations. This was helpful to former slaves, because it made them feel respected. Except, it was not strictly

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The movement was characterized by nonviolent mass protests and civil disobedience following highly publicized events such as the lynching of Emmett Till. These included boycotts such as the Montgomery bus boycott, "sit-ins" in Greensboro and Nashville, a series of protests during the Birmingham campaign, and a march from Selma to Montgomery. [2][3] At the culmination of a legal strategy pursued by African Americans, in 1954 the Supreme Court struck down the underpinnings of laws that had allowed racial segregation and discrimination to be legal in the United States as unconstitutional. [4][5][6][7] The Warren Court made a series of landmark rulings against racist discrimination, including the separate but equal doctrine, such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964), and Loving v. Virginia (1967) which banned segregation in public schools and public accommodations, and struck down all state laws banning interracial

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Philip Randolph informed President John F. Kennedy of his plan, along with other civil rights leaders, to organize a march on Washington. Despite Kennedy’s concerns about any potential violence, Randolph assured him that the protest would be orderly, peaceful, and nonviolent. Randolph’s confidence in the march’s peaceful nature stemmed from the continuous hard work and planning alongside his collaborators. Moreover, Randolph aimed for the march to serve as a platform for people to collaborate on ways to ensure fair treatment for African Americans by the government. The march serves as a powerful plan of action to voice the grievances of unjust laws and to stand up for legislative changes.

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On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 demonstrators descended upon the nation’s capital to participate in the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” Not only was it the largest demonstration for human rights in United States history, but it also occasioned a rare display of unity among the various civil rights organizations. The event began with

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These movements/protests eventually impacted the nature of American life and society, within this time frame. Equality for African American’s have sought for since the Civil War; however, it was not until World War II that these ideas were recognized. Compared to America, the

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