Harvey Milk In The Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement: African-American and LGBT Although the African-American civil rights movements have been going on since the early 1600’s, it shares some differences and similarities to the LGBT civil rights movement that started in the early 1940’s. Growing up in a very conservative area, some topics are not acknowledged as being real. Struggling to be heard, struggling to be seen, the LGBT civil rights pleads to be mentioned anywhere. These two civil rights movements have shaped American culture in their own way. Each point in American history had its own leaders that made these movements happened, laws that impacted both movements, and social impacts on modern culture today that can be compared and contrasted. In every movement,

He used his influence in the council to add and change laws that would help the members of the community. It was said that Milk "used his incredible oratory skills to call out his opponents, all the while arguing for equal rights." Because of Milk, he opened a foundation to help the LGBT members in San Francisco, the first of its kind in the United States. After his death, the name of the foundation changed to the Harvey Milk Democratic Club (Infoplease.com). Although both leaders led their armies in different ways, both men were assassinated for similar reasons. Dr. King departed from this Earth on April 4, 1968. The sound of the shot pierced through the hatred of the citizens. He was murdered by James Earl Ray, a small time criminal. King was shot because his movement for equality was growing more than what Ray wanted. Ray first committed to the crime, and sentenced to 99 years in prison. Ray later retracted his confession and begged for a reopening of a

The law stopped discrimination against sexual orientation. Only a few months later, Milk was killed, and the bittersweet feeling of equal housing clung itself to the mouths of his supporters. Although these events took place thirty years ago, LGBT civil rights are still relevant today. On June 27, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that every state had to allow same-sex marriage, something African-Americans have been permitted to do since the 1960’s. United States citizens divided themselves into two sides: one that was somber, dreading the impending doom of the apocalypse, while the other side screamed as loudly as each person could the praises of the beginning of a new