Civil Rights Observation

Analyze the changes that occurred during the 1960’s in the goals, strategies, and support of the movement for African American civil rights.

1. What were some of the major events that contributed to the rise of the civil rights? Give details from at least two sources to support your answer. Some of the major events that happened to the rise of the civil rights are the governor made the march illegal and went to the church on Sunday march,7 they all gathered and protested. On August,28 the march attracted 200,000 people of all races, and backgrounds.

Still today the museum reminds us about the struggle of civil rights and education. The museum is a beautiful building that truly helps show the story. There are different items you can touch, sound effects, interviews of students who protested, actual desks and a fire that’s warm. In the beginning of the tour you sit in a room that is meant to portray the auditorium and make you feel like you are actually there on April 23rd 1951, where Barbara Johns gathered the school to discuss going on strike. This scene was created perfectly, it showed the paint coloring, forty-eight stars on the flag, different colored chairs, and cracks on the walls. All of these aspects help set the mood and feel to help the everyday people try to understand and relate to this important moment in history that happened right here in Farmville, Virginia. There is so much history here which is why I think it is so important and why this certain historic moment has such a big impact on our town. This event led to many different cases that helped create equal education for all schools in the nation. I was grateful for this experience and going to go and visit the museum and learn more history about Farmville. I also find it truly amazing that during this time there was so much racism, and segregation, and unequal rights, and now almost eighty years later we go to a university with so many different races, ethnicities, and background. I do agree that there is still predigest people and discrimination, but we have to admit that we have gotten a lot better. I do think that a protest like this could still happen in today’s time. There are still protest today about discrimination involving law enforcement and everyone has their own view on the situations that occur. The protest and strikes will always happen, I just hope in the next twenty years at most we can move on from this idea of discriminating each other and truly

Was the Civil Rights Movement an important event in history?(1)It began in the 19th century, when people persistently(ly) commenced(ed) to speak about inequality and discrimination because(bc) they were tired of being mistreated. This affected and still affects African Americans education, economy, and opportunity wise. One of the first national attempts to end segregation was the B v. B case (Scholastic). (2)(cl)While the case ruled in African American favor, the ruling didn’t assist the nine black students being blocked out of their (adj)local Little Rock Central Jr. High by the coast guard. Fredrick Douglas, Ella Baker, and Tiger Woods are three people (w-w)which inspired or are inspired by the Civil Rights Movement.

According George Kennan “We must formulate and put forward for other nations a much more positive and constructive picture of sort of world we would like to see than we have put forward in past”(source E). Positivity is what hold people together. With anarchy and dictatorship people will be driven from each other, causing a possible resistance against the government. In response the nation will be forced to retaliate. Due to media this retaliation will be spread around the globe.

The article that I read shows us that even though slavery was ended by the 13th amendment, life still was not fair or equal for former slaves. Reconstruction tried to give slaves the same rights as whites had, but the whites that lived in the southern states didn’t want this to happen they did everything they could to make the slaves live bad by ignoring the federal laws and passing new state laws. The end of Civil War in 1865 should have meant freedom for the slaves. But reconstruction gave them fake freedom. The painting shows in many ways the hardships that the former slaves ended even after they were no longer consider property. That era was one of the darkest era after the reconstruction. KKK was the one that raised the violent action

After so many years of struggles and difficulty, supporters for equality celebrate the way of legislation that forbids racial discrimination. The civil rights act of 1964, ending segregation in public places and prohibit employment discrimination on the part of color, race, religion or origin, is considered one of the accomplishments of the civil rights movement. The leading up to the Civil Rights act was followed by the Civil war which occurred during the years 1861-1865. It was constitutional amendments abolished slavery, and made them slave citizens and gave all men the right to vote, no matter what race they were. The presentation within the civil rights act, was under the act, segregation faced race, religion or origin was banned at all

As many people are aware, African Americans struggled a lot when trying to receive equal rights. Even though the Civil War that took place from 1861 to 1865 had accomplished to abolish slavery in 1865, African Americans were still being treated poorly and weren’t receiving civil rights. “Civil Rights are the rights of all Americans to equal protection under the law, as provided by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution” (Bardes, Schmidt, Shelley 92).

It is necessary to consider that for white people freedom was inherent, while for black people it was a huge of a deal they had to fight for, or not even that. For blacks, liberty was not an option; they had been living under white control supported with such an institution as it was slavery. All these was based on a racial construct that perpetuated white privilege; a complex system of beliefs defending a theory about racial minorities being inferior to whites, unintelligent, or dangerous. Government response was insufficient and several times it adopted a passive attitude towards racism, due to their enrichment and gains in other matters subjugation of blacks provided them.

Our individual characteristics and traits are what initiates change and drives society, yet in our society in which individuality doesn’t seem to exist these days. where is an individualist is something what we call an outcast or not normal. In two articles by Kenji Yoshino "Preface" and "The New Civil Rights Movement", Yoshino discusses how he believes that people “cover” or hide their real identity so they will fit into the so called “norms” of our society. Yoshino supports his argument by ethos, he also uses his own personal experiences, he also uses pathos, and he uses examples, facts and data to get his point across. It is this individuality that fuel society and is present in every aspect of it. Culture, a significant part of society,

The legislature of the fictitious state of Xanadu passes a law that states "All people are welcome at all state-run swimming, beach and golf facilities, as long as they are white. Non-whites may not use any of those facilities."

"If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance, we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1938 (Isaacs 66)

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights are two terms that are often used interchangeably in America. Since the founding of our nation there has always been the debate of the limit of government and what rights were guaranteed to each individual. Many of the architects of our government feared that national government could one day become too powerful and begin to infringe on the individual rights of the citizens. As a result, a Bill of Rights was added to our constitution. The Bill of Rights serves as a guide of what the government cannot do. Civil Liberties simply establish precedent on what rights the United States government cannot abridge on. Civil Rights, on the other hand applies to the rights of individuals. Over the history of our nation the question of civil rights has found itself becoming a pillar of our legal system and has been very instrumental in our quest to become a “more perfect union”. In recent history one civil liberty that has caused a continual controversial debate is the second amendment, in addition to how it applies to gun control measures that are being proposed in order to decrease the level of mass shootings. The second amendment clearly defines the intention of individuals to have the right to bear arms. In order to understand why gun control advocates have failed to secure effective gun control legislation, we must explore the reasoning why the second amendment is interpreted the way it is and should Americans be allowed to own guns?

1. 2 Define Civil Liberties; then define Civil Rights. How are they similar? How do they differ? Which civil sequence has more influence on your life as you know it to be now? Why do you believe this to be so?

Social movements are one of the primary means through which the public is able to collectively express their concerns about the rights and wellbeing of themselves and others. Under the proper conditions, social movements not only shed light on issues and open large scale public discourse, but they can also serve as a means of eliciting expedited societal change and progress. Due to their potential impact, studying the characteristics of both failed and successful social movements is important in order to ensure that issues between the public and the government are resolved to limit injustices and maintain societal progress.