Examples Of Social Injustice In The 1960's

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Imagine you are mad at something. You want to protest. The police try to stop you. They won’t let you speak your opinion. Wouldn’t that make you mad? That’s how people felt in the 1960’s, when the constitutional issue of equality became an issue.

In the 1900’s, there was still many social injustices taking place. Segregation, for example. Blacks formed many protests so that they could be treated fairly.They believed everyone had individual rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. One incident is D-Day, or the children’s crusade that happened in May of 1963. Students skipped school so they could march in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. The city did not like this, so firemen brought hoses and started spraying people away. Police used aggressive dogs to keep people in line. More than 1,200 men, children and women were arrested.(Wikipedia) …show more content…

If you hold up a picture of a gruesome thing, that is probably not for the common good. Say if you wanted to go somewhere, and the streets were filled with protesters, it would be hard to get wherever you are going. For the common good, lots of protests were shut down. Blacks also couldn’t vote. There were many Jim Crow laws to stop blacks from voting. For example, blacks couldn’t vote if their grandfather was a slave. They had to pass a really hard test to vote, and they were taxed when they voted. All of these laws tried to restrict the power of blacks. Not letting them vote means not letting them have free speech, which is their individual