How The Civil Rights Movement Affected My Life Today

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 1950 only 33.9 percent of American women over the age of 16 years old were employed outside of the home compared to 86 percent of American men over the age of 16 years old were employed.” As a woman, the Civil Rights Movement has impacted my life today in many different ways. I go to a school with multiple races, religions, genders, nationalities, and ethnic groups. Many people were affected during this time period such as women that had specified jobs, black leaders who broke the racial barrier, and the blacks who were segregated from whites. Prior to the Civil Rights Movement and subsequent women’s liberation movement, women were limited to specific jobs, therefore many women that were employed in the workforce had a lack of opportunities for advancement in the workforce, given the limited opportunities they …show more content…

Black leaders had strived to make this nation safer for equality and on their way they had taken many beatings to make it safe. Jackie Robinson was the first black baseball player to join the major league. During a game against Philadelphia, Jackie got called the N-word many times by the manager of the Phillies, Ben Chapman. Jackie held his emotions in when called the N-word, but it got to a point where he had to let his emotions out. Since Eddie Stanky, a major league baseball player on Jackie’s team, told Ben Champen to cut it out, Jackie Robinson had gained hope that he would survive this movement. Allies like Eddie Stanky lead to the integration as a whole, but especially in sports and school. The Civil Rights Movement was propelled by the leadership of people like Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks as well as white allies like Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and many others. Without these great leaders, we would likely have a far more segregated and less equal