Examples Of Resistance To The Civil Rights Movement

Despite the tendency toward McCarthy-related conservatism at this time, minorities achieved some very important breakthroughs. They used the language of freedom inspired by the Cold War to push their own rights. They were accepted among social groups and in the workplaces that would not have allowed that to happen in earlier times. The began to mobilize their forces that would promote a civil rights movement. Truman was the first President to address the NAACP. He formed the first committee on Civil Rights across the country. The elimination came about because of Truman. Desegregation of the Armed Forces showed that the government was willing to challenge segregation and it became an example that it could work. Although there was a democratic outrage, Civil Rights had made

With those came resistance from mainly dominant white populations. There were some whites that supported racial integration. Some of the African American activists and white supporters were beaten, picketed, mistreated, and even killed. These decisions caused several White Citizen's Councils were organized to defend segregation. The KKK had a revival in the 1950's in the South. Virginia closed schools as well as pools in order to keep from integrating. The Emmett Till case was one of the most-discussed racial and violent acts in 1955. He was a 14-year-old African American boy who was beaten and murdered for whistling at a white woman. His mother allowed his badly beaten body to be photographed and it made headlines, The men that had done this was found not guilty, regardless of the testimonies of the witnesses. This case and trial sparked outrage in the communities and thus lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white woman. This set off a chain reaction to changes being made and laws being passed to put an end to segregation (Schultz,