African American Civil Rights Movement
Sahar J.
Class 8-10
The African American Civil Rights Movement took place in the 1860’s to the 1960’s. Some people who were involved in this movement were Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells, John F. Kennedy, and many more. The causes of the movement were lynching, segregation, racism, and discrimination. African Americans were being mistreated and they wanted to gain voice and respect in the society. The movement was successful because the government created laws that forbid segregation in schools, racism, discrimination, and lynching.
Injustices were being done to African Americans. They were getting beaten, lynched and discriminated. The blacks had different restrooms and even different water fountains from the whites. They got discriminated when they applied for a job or looked to buy a house. They weren’t allowed to vote. Rosa Parks was a woman who refused to sit in the back of the bus when a white person entered so she was forced to get off and she went to jail. Emit Till was a young boy who flirted with a white woman. He disappeared and after three days, it was reported that he was killed brutally.
African Americans used methods of resistance to get their rights. They went on boycotts, strikes, marches, non-violent protests; bus boycotts, and picket fencing. Bus boycotts affected the bus company. If any black person was forced to sit in the back of the bus, they got off the bus and walked. African Americans started to use other ways of transportation to travel instead of busses and this causes the bus companies to lose a lot of money. The whites deliberately created the
Louisiana literacy test so blacks could take it and fail so they don’t get the right to vote.
African American protests and boycotts made a lot differences to the society. Plessy vs. Fergusun helped stop segregation in schools. African American had more freedom. They were allowed to ride in busses and sit in the front, black children didn’t have separate schools form the whites anymore, and there was less discrimination than before.
The African American Civil Rights movement is one of the important events that took place in the American history. It changed the lives of African Americans. They finally got their rights. They weren’t getting discriminated like they did before; the white and black children didn’t have separate schools anymore, etc. The movement made a big difference for African Americans.
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