The Stonewall Riots were the spark for the LGBTQ+ rights movement, affecting the social and political environments for people of the LGBTQ+ community. It took decades of organized struggle to get the political and social environment for queer people to where it is today. The watershed moment for that struggle was started in the early morning of June 28, 1969 The Stonewall Riots were an uprising against the prosecution of queer people. They started at around 1:20am on June 28, 1969 when police raided the popular gay bar the Stonewall Inn on Christopher street.
The Civil Rights movement ended segregation and guaranteed equal rights among all races. This paper focuses on the role played by the Black Panthers in the Civil Rights movement and their individual actions that affected the goals of the movement greatly. The Black Panther party began in 1966, California. They created ten steps to help Black communities economically.
Since it’s very beginning the United States has been a nation founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, a system of segregation existed in the states that denied these basic principles to the African American population. So organizations such as Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were created in order to combat this inequality. Yet, as the civil rights movement changed so too did SNCC; transforming itself from a local grass-roots project to an organized nation-wide project.
Influenced by King’s faith and tactics, many civil rights student-led activist groups were formed such as the SNCC. A core goal of the SNCC was to promote nonviolent protesting methods using religion as its base (SNCC, Doc A). The SNCC led various voting campaigns in the South, all led by students who shared a common belief. CORE was another group formed by students back in 1942. In the late 50s and 60s, they arranged or participated in some of the most pivotal peaceful protests such as the Freedom Rides and other bus boycotts (O).
The Little Rock Nine was a group of black students who were selected to try and break the color barrier at the local high school, Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Little Rock Nine was an influential movement to the Civil Rights Movement and to the overall benefit of racial segregation in all walks of life. Little Rock Central High School was the first school to integrate white and black students. Central High School became internationally known as the school that failed at mixing colored and white students. Through their unwavering efforts of the Little Rock Nine integration, greater progress was made towards overall change of the Civil Rights Movement.
9 The Freedom Riders were groups of Americans who supported equal rights for both whites and African-Americans. They took bus trips across the south of the U.S to fight segregation and promote equality in bus terminals (History). Now, how did the Freedom Riders contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Well, throughout their journeys, they garnered much attention on the subject of segregation. For example, their trips to New Orleans, Alabama, and Mississippi.
During the mid 1900s the Civil Rights Movement sparked and reached its peak as it caused mass controversy within our country, especially within the southern states, controversy that continued throughout the rest of the century. This fire burned brightly and the movement had more attention and support than ever. Despite the support it received there were still those that attempted to diminish its blaze and douse the flame entirely through the belief of white supremacy, the belief that white people are superior to those of all other races, especially the black race, and should therefore dominate society. White supremacist groups and individuals attempted to hinder the movement through acts of unimaginable violence like the lynching of Emmett
Black Power, to many, meant Black Freedom. The term Black Power provided a sense of self-confidence. Carmichael’s term encouraged many to favor the term Afro-American over Negro. The rise of afros and change in attire comes along with this new found racial pride. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, also moved by Malcolm X, founded the Black Panther Party.
The Jim crow laws where a series laws from 1877 to the 1950s that enforced racial segregation across the United States of America. They started at the end of reconstructionism and ended at the beginning of the civil rights movement. The effect of the Jim Crow Laws had a very negative effect on the black community in those times. The author Nick Treanor wrote a book on the topic titled “The Civil Rights Movement” written in 2003 which had a short section dedicated to the topic.
Then commenced the march, people left satisfied with the notion that we 're finally taking a stand for equal job opportunities and true American freedom. (Wukovits, 65-67) After watching the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on T.V in 1963 Dr. King turned to his wife and said, "This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick nation. And I don 't think I can survive either",(De Angelis, 150) and sure enough, he was correct.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an organization that focuses on equal rights for everyone, particularly people of color, and had a major impact during the Civil Rights Movement. NAACP’s mission is “...to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.” (naacp.org). NAACP had the greatest impact during the Civil Rights Movement because of their pivotal role in the Brown VS Board of Education case, organized peaceful protests, and significant members.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Black people were suffering in almost silence until around 1955, when Dr Martin Luther King Jr, a Baptist Minister, began non-violent protests Martin Luther King Jr came from a line of Baptist ministers and was his father who thought that segregation was against GOD, some influence came from Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Benjamin Mays, the president of Morehouse college King met his wife, Coretta Scott, at Boston university, after college, he started his civil rights protests with the Montgomery bus boycott, becomes chairman of the SCLC, meets with president Eisenhower, takes a month long trip to Gandhi’s birthplace in India, writes his “letter from a Birmingham jail”, and after the March on Washington delivers his “I have a dream” On April 4TH, 1968 Dr Martin Luther King is assassinated Martin Luther
During the Civil Rights Movement, there were many groups that were created to stop or discontinue unfair treatment of African Americans. Many African American try or made a effect to the movement for the civil war. One of these clubs was the Black Panthers and they impack in the civil war because the history of the black panther, why the group was made, and the belief of the black panthers. First and foremost, the history of the Black Panthers is one of self-defence in the face of racial injustice. The Black Panthers played a short part of the Civil War, but that short part had a important impact by fighting for equal rights.
During the Civil Rights era, the tactic of nonviolence was utilized with the intent to integrate the nation. Such desires were driven by the likes of Martin Luther King Jr and other organizations. However, while the majority of the movement focused on these goals, a divergent movement began to grow and challenged many of the mainstream ideologies. The ideas of black nationalism began to emerge following its foundation by Marcus Garvey and influenced people such as Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Its foundation was a direct response to the direction taken by the Civil Rights Movement as some felt not enough was being done and that the tactics used by civil rights leaders were not bringing about effective or long-lasting change.
The Watts Riots of 1965 marked a significant turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, as they highlighted the deep-seated racial tensions in America and underscored the need for comprehensive social, economic, and political reforms to address the systemic injustices faced by African Americans (NPR). Leading up to the riots, a young African American man named Marquette Frye and his brother Robert Frye were pulled over by a white police officer named Lee W. Minikus, who suspected young Marquette of drunk driving (PBS). As the traffic stop ensued, a group of people began looking on. Marquette began to panic at the thought of going to jail. He became slightly aggravated.
