James Meredith: The American Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights movement was a battle for equality right, the black people struggled to gain social justice, it took place between the 1950s and 1960s. The black people fought for their equal rights as humans under the United States Act. They succeeded to put an end to the slavery but the manipulation and the discriminations didn’t stop. It was an extending journey of racism, especially in the south. It was the end of the 20s when black people started marching against violence and consumption and many whites helped them to gain equality and that itself lasted almost two decades. (History.com Staff, 2009)
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James was a civil rights activist who fought for the civil right who later became a lawyer. He was involved in politics and still is an activist until this day. Meredith, first experienced racism when he was riding a train to Chicago with his brother. It was when the train arrived in Memphis, Tennessee, that Meredith was forced to give up his seat and move to a section that let black people stand the whole journey, he assured that he would dedicate his whole life to fight for equal treatment for African Americans. In 1963, Meredith graduated and got a degree in political science. He wrote Three Years in Mississippi, which was published in 1966 which contained his experiences at the University of Mississippi (“James Meredith”). He also received a master's degree in economics from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and a law degree from Columbia University in 1968. Meredith is still an active in civil rights and education issues, and has made an organization named the Meredith Institute. He has also authored several books, for example, the children's book Will Wadsworth's Train to Nowhere (2010), and the memoir A Mission from God (2012). (Britannica, 2016)
The civil rights movement helped change the differences between the people in the U.S. In 1870 black people had the right to vote as any other citizen in America. It was hard for the whites to accept this change because at first, most whites saw African Americans as useless and slaves, making them work for them because of their skin color. Until they collaborated and became a united union, impacting the Montgomery Bus System, the school system, and the judicial system. Not only this movement united the two nations, but also helped people to stop treating people unequally. (History.com Staff,