The start of the Civil Rights movement was a period in history that was a demonstrative expression of nonviolent protests for African-Americans in the early to late 1860’s. There were many controversies that arose between African-American and Caucasians where some of the most unriveting, deep, and documented experiences took place for those who participated in these protests. There were several radicalized civil rights advocates who fought hard and tirelessly for basic human “rights” for African-American; to name a few were Rosa Parks, Medger Evers, and Malcolm X. An important leader of these civil rights protesters was Martin Luther King, Jr. but, there was also Malcolm X who ascertained the more extreme side of encouraging violence and other …show more content…
For example, “…it was discovered how easily the Africans learned, and how eager they were able to do so –so laws were created forbidding anyone to teach any African how to read.” Although many Africans were being held against their will; along with them being brought to the United States where there was no documentation nor records kept to verify their legality status. During this time, abolitionists Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, and Henry Highland Garnet were known for their active roles in the escape to freedom for most slaves among the Southern states. There were underground railways formed to help with freeing the slaves that were able to get away. There was an assembly of safe haven homes also made to help aid in the safety of these runaway slaves. It’s been documented that during the kidnapping of African-Americans they were being produced to become slaves and in the process, the African-Americans that weren’t aboard the ships to bondage they were thrown overboard so they couldn’t be accounted for; the others were taken to the Caribbean and South America for slavery duties and reported to their slave masters