How Successful Was The Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement What made the Civil Rights Movement successful were the careful calculations and the reactions of all different groups of people. There were reactions from African American young adults, nuns and pastors around the country, sheriffs, politicians, white Americans, and people from around the world. Thoreau was correct when he said “government has done little to change the course of history.” John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy didn’t do much because they wanted to maintain their social status, the sheriffs down South weren’t doing anything, and the mayors down South didn’t do much either. If anything the sheriffs and mayors of the South did everything they could to counterattack the activist groups. So, the Civil Rights activists needed do something to make things happen because it didn’t seem like anyone with a high status in the government was willing to help; and, the reactions instigated ultimately made a change.

A movement cannot be effective until it starts making people outside of the group of people who are experiencing injustices feel uncomfortable and affected. In the Civil Rights Movement just talking about the issues didn’t make things happen because black people already knew that what was happening to them was wrong, preaching about their problems to each other wasn’t going to do anything. When people outside of the African American community started feeling affected by the injustices imposed on African Americans by white people did things begin to change. I believe part of the reason the Civil Rights Movement hadn’t happened earlier was because not many people were voicing the injustices they were just accepting