Essay On The Civil Rights Movement

After World War II a new movement for civil rights began. African Americans started to have more confidence and believe more in themselves. And they were growing more courageous and was concerned about their rights. They had they served for their country with honor during the war and in the North many Blacks started living in better conditions. But, still the slavery didn’t abolish from the roots. It was the phase where the blacks were started getting small amount of recognition by having major achievements. The Civil Rights movement gained momentum in the 1950s. In 1955 a black woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama because she refused to let a white passenger take her seat. Blacks in the city started boycotting buses. This was the beginning of civil rights movement. This

The movement reached its climax in 1963. Over a million people, Blacks as well as Whites took part in a protest demonstration in Washington D.C. In the following year Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. This law banned discrimination in school, public places, jobs and many other fields. African Americans received the right to vote and in 1967 Thurgood Marshall became the first Black judge to serve with the Supreme Court. In this stage the blacks learnt a lesson that, if they want justice and freedom, they have to earn it not by asking, they have to earn it in a hard way.

Now, if we focus on current issues of America do we think the slavery have been abolished totally? The answer would be yes. But still the blacks are victims of many disgraceful political circumstances. Still now if we watch news read newspaper we will notice there would be at least a couple of news where black people are victimized by police. . An analysis published by The Guardian in May found 32 percent of black people killed by police this year were unarmed, compared to 15 percent of white people and 25 percent of Hispanic and Latino