The Civil Rights Movement How the Change Became and Overcame

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Colored Americans are not only the mainstream of our society but see no hope of entering it. The lack of motivation and anti-social behavior which result are capitalized upon by the champions of the status quo. They say that the average negro must demonstrate to the average white that the latter’s fears are groundless (Weaver, 1963). Robert Weaver delivers a number of statistics to reveal that while progress has been made for black Americans in 1963 startling inequality that instilling good values and promoting respectability in black youth will work insofar as they are afforded the same opportunities as white Americans, responding to critics of the civil rights movement (Weaver, 1963). He also believes that greater progress should only come once African Americans achieve a measure of “respectability. Leon Litwack recounts the history of the civil rights movement, focusing on the period after World War ll. There were successes, including great gains in voter registration, but also failures, such as persistent economics inequality. He also emphasizes the limits of King’s nonviolence approach and the difficulty that activists had in conjuring a successful alternative (Litwack, 2009, p.3-28).

However progress was being made but the attitudes of some white Americans remained the same towards the Jim Crow laws during the first three decades of the twentieth century. African Americans and race relations, in the history of this nation has led to a new reconstruction, a restricting of truth, freedom, justice, equality, righteousness, and peace (Litwack, 2009), leaving America to now be the land of the free with just laws, political, social, economic trends, and citizenship rights after starting the civil rights movement. Black Americans gained legislation against discrimination in public places and having voting rights giving equal opportunities to achieve anything desirable. And the quality nature of the future African American leaders are now effective to those leaders who related to the society satisfying the yearnings for human dignity rights which reside in the hearts of all Americans today.

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References

King, M. L., Jr. (1963, April 16). Letter from Birmingham Jail. African Studies Center - University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved from https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

Litwack, L. F. (2009). “Fight the power!” the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. The Journal of Southern History, 75(1), 3–28.

Murphree, V. D. (2004). “Black power”: Public relations and social change in the 1960s. American Journalism, 21(3), 13–32.

Weaver, R. C. (1963). “The Negro as an American.” Documents for the Study of American History. Retrieved from http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/texts/weaver.html

X, M. (1963). “God’s judgement of white America (The chickens come home to roost).” Digital History. Retrieved from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3619