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Examples Of Resistance To The Civil Rights Movement

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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 …show more content…

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,

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Ulysses Grant took during the Reconstruction and was responsible for helping to pass some of the most important Reconstruction time legislation. The most notable of this legislation being The Civil Rights Act of 1870 and 1875 and of course the 15th amendment. Grant also took a strong stance against the violence of the Ku Klux Klan and sought to protect the rights of African Americans. Nearly 80 years later when the United States was still dealing with race relations, Eisenhower also proved effective. The most notable of his achievements in this sphere was his use of federal troops in Little Rock to enforce the desegregation of public schools adherent to Brown vs Board of Education, as well as his signing of civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 to protect the right to vote by African-Americans.

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He oversaw the conversion of the American economy from its World War ll footing to one that emphasized both consumer and military production. While not without problems, this transition occurred about as smoothly as possible. Truman protected the New Deal and with a rise of the minimum wage in 1949 and the enlargement of Social Security in 1950, built upon its achievements. He pushed forward the cause of the African American civil rights by desegregating the military, by banning discrimination in the civil service, and by commissioning a federal report on civil rights. Just as important, Truman spoke out publicity on the

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White supremacist groups were formed, such as the Ku Klux Klan organization. They caused violence against African Americans who believed that white people were not supreme. Particularly in Memphis and in New Orleans, many blacks were killed or wounded, and the burning of schools contributed to the anti-black violence. So, Reconstruction, which was to improve to condition of African Americans, was quite unsuccessful as it caused white Americans in the South to cause turmoil for the African Americans. The situation faced by blacks and the conditions they had to live under was not made better by

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Despite many achievements, the Reconstruction faced many challenges because of white resistance. Many Southern whites were uncooperative with new legislation passed by blacks and Yankees. With the resistance came vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK formed to maintain white supremacy and to intimidate black voters and whites that supported them. The vigilante groups tried to follow old ways as much as possible, so much so that they hired blacks to work the agricultural fields whites owned.

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In 1945 African American civil rights advocates established challenges to the racial discriminations. Black Veterans and workers, after having already had a taste of liberation while being away at war, peregrinated home with the hope of reenergizing the civil rights movement. Many of the core resources such as leadership, legal resources, strategy coalitions with the whites, and a connecting philosophy to propel the movement forward, in the fight for African American equality converged during and right after the war (Schaller et. al. 942). President Harry Truman even took the time to make civil rights a component of his political and domestic agenda during his reign.

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This was a major shift in political power, as African Americans began exercising their right to participate in the democratic process. However, the Reconstruction Era faced significant challenges and resistance from white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, who sought to undermine the rights and progress of African Americans. Ultimately, Reconstruction policies fell short of their intended goals, and the rise of Jim Crow laws further entrenched racial segregation and discrimination in the United

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The rhetorical and cultural perspectives are always at play in interactions. The rhetorical perspectives describes the strategic choices in an interaction. The cultural perspective recognizes that the choices one makes in communication are deeply rooted in one's culture. In this interaction I strategically chose to provide accounts of Dee’s promises in order to demand actions for her to take. There is not enough evidence to interpret how/if Dee is using the rhetorical perspective in the interaction.

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The Brown case marked the cusp of the civil rights movement. A paradigm shift was taking place across the nation, black activists groups and civil rights groups would start mobilizing as the sentiment was that the federal government was finally ready to approach racial discrimination. In Montgomery, Alabama, December 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus. The mobilization and operation that took place after Parks’ protests gave way to the Montgomery bus boycott with Martin Luther King Jr at the

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A large part of this was because of the Sibley Commision, and the leader of the commission, John Sibley. This was notable because the desegregation of schools was a big achievement in the Civil Rights Movement, and in education overall. The text states, “In 1960, Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver, Jr. was faced with a decision to either close public schools or comply with a federal order to desegregate them.” (Document 4: The Sibley Commision.) This shows the two options that Georgia had, desegregation or closing public schools.

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In the United States during the 1950s the federal government was forced to establish federal regulations to put an end to the segregation of society in the south along with the north. In the northern states segregation was a type of segregation call de facto segregation of which is segregation based on unwritten custom or by tradition. This was rather different than segregation in the south which was known as de jure segregation being the Jim Crow laws enforced segregation by law. These southern state governments however felt that the federal government could not control the segregation of African Americans in the states. Thus the southern states used many unsuccessful strategies to resist the compliance that included “The Southern Manifesto”,the creation of the “White Citizens Councils”,the conflict that erupted in Little Rock, and the James Meredith issue at the all-white University of segregation

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Often times the government would only pass laws in response to the large protests, but these laws were the stepping stones to eventually ending the large scale segregation in America. Document one shows President Truman creating equality in the armed services no matter a person’s race, color, religion, or national origin. This message from the President was both an immediate help to the country, and the starting point of later laws. This law came in right after the second World War, and before the Vietnam War, and allowed a whole new group of people to join the army and solidify the weak army after the war. This law also was the starting point to desegregation in the workplace, the army was a way for both African Americans, and whites to work side by side.

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Notably the African American movement was mainly successful in the 1960’s, due to many changes with goals outlined by a group of united political leaders, with

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Thesis From the mid 1910s to the early 1960s there were many riots that occured, because of racial tensions built up between the the whites and the blacks world wide. Coming from Will Brown being accused of rapping a young white girl, and to Eugene Williams having rocks thrown at him causing him to drown. Segregation at this time was unjustified due to racism still being heavily considered as the right thing to do. These riots caused the United States to be even more segregated, due to unequal rights and no laws being created at the time to help and protect African Americans. During these riots there were cases of police brutality and whites being able to do whatever they choose to do, because they felt as if it was a justified reason to stop the African Americans from rioting.

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In document #1 by the Bee newspaper in Danville, VA in 1954, stated that, “The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that segregation of Negro and White students in public schools is unconstitutional.” On May 17, 1974, segregation in schools ended by the court ruling and schools were more convenient for African American kids. This might of been a good thing for African Americans but the integration process took a long time do to the school system denying the law. Another example would be document 3 by Daisy Bates she says, “They moved closer and closer. Somebody started yelling, “Lynch her!

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The topic of Social Justice will be examined as well as black consciousness, religion and police brutality. In this paper, we will look at these specific topics in level of importance as well as examine the lyrics from Strange fruit and Mississippi goddamn by Nina Simone as well as Alright and the Blacker the Berry from Kendrick Lamar. These two artists have truly embodied the meaning of black resistance from the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter Movement. Also, their music has great symbolism and helped move the culture forward in the fight to end Social Injustice. The definition of black resistance is going against the establishment that is been provided for us and creating new rules.

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