The Movement Begins
By using a steady stream, of non-violent protesting, and creating private organizations the African Americans were able to revolutionize the Civil Rights Movement and begin a movement that would change everything.
“Everything changed in the struggle for equality. People en masse were getting involved and the great and inspiring MLK had emerged from his pulpit.” -James Farmer from The Mary Washington Bullet, April 19, 1886
The non-violent protest of African Americans in the 1960s with the
guidance of private organizations where able to accomplish desegregation and
other milestones.
With the help of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Brown V. Board of Education, the Creation of the Congress for Racial Equality, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Little Rock nine eventually resulted in the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
guidance of private organizations where able to accomplish desegregation and
other milestones.
With the help of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Brown V. Board of Education, the Creation of the Congress for Racial Equality, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Little Rock nine eventually resulted in the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
The Religious, Political and Social accomplishments of the 1960s where a strong foundation for the Civil Rights Movement.
COREThe Congress for Racial Equality was formed by James Farmer, George Houser, Bayard Rustin, and Bernice Fisher in 1942 at the University of Chicago, and then it spread from there. They organized sit in's through out the south, and the first Freedom Ride.
“Like a seed, a real core, it would germinate and radiate its equality in wider and wider circles until it encompassed the whole nation.” - James Farmer, Lay Bare the Heart (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1985) |
SCLCThe Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed by Joseph Lowery, Fred Shuttlesworth, Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin and Ralph Abernathy "To eradicate environmental classism and racism wherever it exists," Along with their other goals, they accomplished this through organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by challenging the segregation of voting booths, public transportation, housing and accommodations. And by providing legal aid to those who needed it.
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NAACP"A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi ... has the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for." - Thurgood Marshall, President of the NAACP and Associate Justice for the US Supreme Court Beginning in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People supported all cases attempting to over throw segregation. The NAACP also took place in the Brown v. Board of Education case and where able to over throw the segregation of that school, and allow Linda Brown to attend school.
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Throughout history, African American’s have been discriminated against, due to this there have been many movements in attempts to intervene, along with many historic events strengthening the discrimination.
The ideas created during the Civil Rights Movement, and the methods of
intervention are still incorporated and used today when it comes to social
movements, along with filling the wage gap between African Americans and
Caucasians.
Although fundamentally African American’s and Caucasian’s are equal they are not treated equally in some fields. Yes they are no longer enslaved thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation. Yes African Americans can now vote and take place in democracy due to the 15th amendment. Yes they can eat in the same restaurants and ride public transportation with thanks to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Throughout history many groups have rallied together in attempts to make African American's and Caucasian's held as equals in society, and many times we have seen these thing accomplished with slight government intervention and the formation of private organizations. In current day US the wage gap between African American Families and Caucasian Families (reference the graph) is roughly $236,500 a year and growing. With the encouragement from organizations such as the NAACP Senators and other Politicians are fighting the wage gap and attempting to pass more acts to build off of the Equal Pay Act of 1963. Thanks to the formation of the NAACP and the success they have had during the Civil Rights Movement and especially in the beginning with fighting segregation, they are using and applying these tactics to the current day fight for closing the wage gap between African American's and Caucasian's.
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"THE NAACP STRONGLY SUPPORTS THE PAYCHECK FAIRNESS ACT AND URGES ALL |