Equalizing Freedom Movement

Equalizing Freedom:

Founded in 1942, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American Civil Rights Movement. Their mindset was to get rid of discrimination in the deep south against native americans. CORE’s original approach was a pacifist, non-violent approach to fighting racial segregation, but by the late 1960s this group’s leadership had shifted its attention towards the political ideal of black nationalism and separatism. On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. A lot of these protest also took place in bathrooms

The board of education over the years had set up a pattern. For example black schools would be in the South and West sides of the city, which primarily was where their neighborhoods also were. While the white schools were in the North, NorthWest, and SouthWest white areas, and predominantly was where their neighborhoods were as well. There were many segregated schools and in these schools a lot of them had double-shifts. Double-shifts meant that kids would attend less than a full day of school in order to allow other students a chance to learn something. It’s crazy because they were so overpopulated that they even implemented mobile classroom lessons where they would meet outside and circle the school while they tried to learn and take notes. According to CORE, “school segregation was a damaging bacteria, a psychological handicap, which festered a disease generating widespread unemployment and crime in Chicago”. By 1966 the chicago freedom movement was considerably in the hands of Martin Luther King JR. and he really pushed to desegregate these chicago school and the following fall they conjoined into black and white schools but their were still problems with the bathrooms and water fountains and black kids would get beat up whether they knew or not if they had used the white

Without CORE’s activist organization and how impactful it was in the civil rights movement, where might america stand with racial segregation today to any culture. Would we still have found a way to have equal lives with whites and blacks living side by side? Without CORE would even are most inspiring civil rights activist Martin Luther King ever risen to the occasion of doing what he did for native americans. These are the kinds of questions that we have to consider asking ourselves if we never would have stepped up and done the right thing. American citizens are grateful for the equal rights that we have today and our proud to be living in the United States which is without a doubt the land of