Essay On African American Civil Rights

Back in the days there was limited Civil Rights for African Americans. The African Americans had it rough back then. When they had became slaves, no one really cared for them. The whites only care of how much work they can get done into their farms and houses. African Americans always had it bad for them because of the color of their skin. Til this day they still get discriminated but it is not as bad as it was before because of the Civil Rights movement they did.
After the Civil War ended, African Americans started gaining better civil rights. In 1865, Amendment XIII was added to the constitution and it had abolished slavery. After slavery had ended, it had given the African Americans a big relief and it gives them hope that white people are actually treating them with respect and that it is not all about the color of their skin. As time passed through things start getting

There was lots of riots and lots of discrimination and segregation going on. But there was Martin Luther King Jr and he gave hope for the African Americans. In 1957, he helps find the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to work for full equality for African Americans. As people see him doing movement and non violence things to get full equality, others try to do some things too. Like in 1960, Four black college students begin a sit-in at lunch counter of Woolworth's Department Store in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is a restaurant where black patrons were not served. The sit-in first started with four students and then later on more students from different campuses came in to do it too. “From the Greensboro area there must have been people from six of seven university campuses who wanted to participate, who wanted to help sit-in, who wanted to help picket.”(Doc 3). This movement gave the young adults hope to stop segregation in that restaurant and for others to see what they were doing wasn’t