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Racial Injustice In The Civil Rights Movement

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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” Martin Luther King’s famous quote that I believe still applies to modern day society. Racial injustice is something that has been around in the world for hundreds of years starting out with the slave trade that lasted from the 16th to the 19th century. The events that have occurred in the past have not completely disappeared. There is still many racial injustices to this date that have been taken upon by citizens. However, over the years many people stepped up and voiced their opinions to make a change. Two of the most famous movements The Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Anti-Apartheid in South Africa that changed the lives of black people around the world there is still some injustices to this day. However, the Civil rights movement and anti- apartheid fought for the change that they believed in and wanted.
The Civil Rights Movement started in 1955 but beforehand the United States already struggled with racial injustices after the Civil War they were promised equal rights but were still faced …show more content…

For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful protests against the South African government and its racist policies including the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People. Mandela was put in jail several times but continued to fight. In 1962, he was imprisoned for 27 years by the South African apartheid government. His crime was standing up against a government that was committing abuses against black South Africans. He was released from prison in 1990 and three years later was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on ending the apartheid and for starting a new democratic South Africa. He went on to lead the way for the abolition of apartheid in 1994 and became the president of South

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