Essay On African American Leaders In The 1960s

In the context of racial discrimination, many African Americans felt as if the government never really assisted them in gaining their rights. The prejudice of African Americans still lingered even after many attempts to settle disagreements. In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, Homer Plessy denied to sit in an all black car and remained in a white only car; the outcome of this case upheld the ideas of racial segregation and proved that when groups are separated they will never be treated the same.It seemed in both eras of civil rights activism that the conservative minds of Americans could not be washed away. African American leaders in the 1890s-1920s are different from leaders during the 1950s-1960s in their use of violence and peace and they are similar by

The 1890s were a time of conservative ideals which including using violence against violence for example the Haymarket Affair that was a violent and bloody protest for the desire of adequate pay and better working conditions for factory workers. The African American community had realized that they could not be heard if they were silent. They felt the only way to get their voices heard was through aggression. They had protests and even just fought for the ability to be seen. However in the 1950s civil rights activists, led by Martin Luther King, did not want to fight fire with fire so the majority of their protests were peaceful but still recognized such as sit in protests, started by the Greensboro 4, where african americans sat in white only areas and refused to get up.If they had began to behave violently southern ideals would latch on to the violence, using it as a source of their racist ideology. These two eras of progression have this difference because America had become more