Almost a hundred years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Southern states still occupied an unequal country of disappointment, isolation, and different types of abuse, including racial motivated violence. In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional. The new ruling by the Supreme Court to end educational segregation sparked a new fury, a new fire in many Americans, black and white alike. The Civil Rights Movement, known for major campaigns of civil resistance between 1954 and 1968, did little however, to change the everyday life of the typical black family. Because of great social activist like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., the movement did see …show more content…
By the beginning of the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement was in pieces. Tempers flared, tensions grew, and wars were fought in the name of racial equality. The war this time was not fought in some battlefield between the Yankee and the Confederate soldiers. The war of inequality was fought on American streets, among American businesses, and in American houses. Sadly, at present day almost fifty years later, not much has changed. There have been great strides in equality, from a legal viewpoint. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and also banned discrimination in the workplace on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, is thought to be the greatest victory during the Civil Rights Movement. In later years, Congress also added to the act and passed legislation aimed at granting more equality to African Americans, such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After the Civil War, the 15th Amendment, prohibited states from denying a male citizen the right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Nevertheless, in the following years, various devious discriminatory tactics were used to keep African Americans away from the polls, especially in the South. Black men searching to vote