The Civil Rights Movement In The 1960's

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Civil rights movement is not something new, it's been going on for decades, it didn't just start out without planning, people sat down for years disgusting how they are going to start out such movement. It’s a word that we hear wherever we go these days, that movement was not just a talk, it was action after it and the people that fought they were fighting for the right of humanity on this earth. African American were one of many that struggled even after the civil war and one of the main points of the war was the right for African American,an African American to have the freedom as citizen and most importantly free as human, after the war finished the promise to have citizenship, but it was hard to accept them as equal after years of building …show more content…

The movement took steep curve in the 1960’s when Martin Luther King gave his famous speech in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, when he said “great beacon of light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.” Is when many African American desire to have the freedom to live, to have life looking forward to live, to future that has hope for get to, to metamorphose, and be human as the rest of the world for the first time in ages. They didn’t have the best in the New World when they start bringing them and they were the least part of being successful in the movement and it took time for them to apply it, to get their equality in education and being in the same transportation level, also being the exact equal with white people. As we can see in our daily life African American has their equality in the United States but we never can say we reach that level yeah, because there is part of the country where people can’t accept the concept that we all human and we shouldn’t look at the color of the skin to determine …show more content…

The real fight for African American started long before even the movement started, the Civil War was part of a movement even though not a lot of people were thinking about freedom but some were fighting for it and the most bloodiest war in the history of America had one of such reason, thousand and not millions of people die for the freedom of their citizen. As John F. Kennedy said in his famous speech “It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.” That was after few years when the movement started, that prove that our still progressing without stopping. President Kennedy also said “they are not yet freed from social and economic oppression.” If there was two babies born at the same day, at the same city, the different is one of them is white while the other one is black. The question what is the difference that will have been done in the 1960’s? It will be ½ for the black kid to start school, also it it will be ⅓ chance for him to get to high school, and it will be ⅕ chance for him to get to college and get his education done. That’s not all to it, ⅙ chance that college graduate student to get job. That opened the door for people to start thinking how people will