The Civil Rights Movement In The 1950's

The civil rights movement began in the late 1950’s. African Americans were granted their rights after been denied for years. This was a huge struggle for African Americans to gain their equal rights in the United States. Although the Civil War did end slavery for blacks, it did not end discrimination against the black communities. After the Civil War there were three amendments that passed to the constitution which were to guarantee equal rights to the African American mostly the African American men only though. Those three amendments were the 13th, 14th, and the 15th which the 13th amendment freed the slaves in the united states, the 14th amendment granted citizenship to everyone who was born in the United States, and the 15th amendment granted

There were many events which took place during the civil rights movement. One of the first events was Brown versus Board of Education in 1954 The U.S Supreme Court’s ruling was said to be a watershed event in the history of the United States. The (NAACP) called after the city refused to let an African American female enroll in an all-white school. In 1955 the Supreme Court had all states to begin the process of desegregation. In 1955 there two major events that happened, one was the Emmett Till murder on August 28. In this case Emmett and a few others had walked into what was mainly a white’s town and one had whistled at a white woman. A few days later Till was kidnapped from his uncle's home and was beaten to death and was found floating in the Tallahatchie River, which prompted African Americans in northern cities to stage rallies and demonstrations for racial justice. Another issue in which happened in 1955 was the Montgomery Bus Boycott an African American woman, Rosa Parks was arrested because she would not give her seat on the bus to a white man. In 1962 James Meredith became the first African American to go to college and attend Ole Miss University. On November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy’s (JFK) was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, TX during the presidential motorcade. 1968 Martin Luther King was assassinated as he stood at the second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis TN. Although all these things have happened in America and within the

Overall their big change in the civil rights movement was becoming desegregated. African Americans were given rights to sit by white Americans in schools and earn the same education. African Americans were able to be treated the same as anyone else. They were given a freedom in America that they had not known before. This freedom they were given by being equal changed their lives the way they lived their everyday life with one another.

6. Social Workers throughout 1940’s and 1960’s involved in both professionally and personally in fight for civil right. A clinical professor, Ralph Fertig was an activist that formed Freedom Rides in 1961 in order to protest segregation and racial inequality. The Freedom Riders on public transportation in the southern states which started drawing attention to fight for racial equality and violence against any and all peaceful