Essay On The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement was a social movement by the black community against racial segregation and discrimination in the United States that came to prominence in the mid 1950s. The inception of this broad reconstruction dates back to the 1860s- beginning with the struggling efforts of African slaves for emancipation from slavery and racial oppression. This culminated into the Civil War which ended the institution of slavery and granted basic civil rights for African slaves through the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendment. It proudly proclaimed that indeed all men were created equal and therefore should have equal rights. Unfortunately, fast-forward a century into the future and African Americans in the South were still struggling

Set up Freedom schools: Schools were established so that children could learn about black history, social studies, reading, math, as well as develop leadership skills. These lessons were not provided to them in the segregated schools.
3. And open community centers: These were opened to provide childcare, library books, meals, medical assistance, and a variety of other services. Again, this was all denied to segregated neighborhoods.
Black Mississippians and more than 1000 out-of-state, primarily white, college students volunteered to aid with the campaign. The white college students came from high economic backgrounds, top universities, and they taught African American how to register to vote. The volunteers also taught history and politics in the newly-formed Freedom Schools. The employment of many white students for this campaign was a tactic implemented by SNCC and CORE, because they knew that the country would only pay attention if the lives of white students were at stake. (Bloom 1987: 180) According to David Dennis of CORE “We knew that if we had brought in a thousand blacks, the country would have watched them slaughtered without doing anything about it. Bring in a thousand whites and the country is going to react in two days.” He was right. Several black activists were murdered in the South during the evolvement of the Civil Rights Movement and there was little to no media coverage, along with the federal government still refusing to provide protection for civil rights workers. But with the addition of white students to the movement there was a newfound power in the demand for protection from the federal