Civic Engagement
The right to vote is a constitutional one in the US and it was passed by Congress in 1869: it ensured that everyone had the right, regardless of race, creed or color. Yet nearly a century later in the US, people were still being segregated and discriminated against because of race, creed and color. Why? The reason is that the power structure in the US did not want certain types of people voting or having influence or power of their own. It is why many immigrant communities were broken up by federal plans to create new interstate roads. It is why there have only been two Catholic presidents and one black one in the nations more than 200-year history. The US has always been a fundamentally WASP-driven affair, with help from elite (often Jewish) families that dominate banking, finance, and media. There is no room in that paradigm for other races, creeds, or colors since the founding fathers of the US and the financial elites both viewed themselves as the chosen people of God. The chosen ones do not want competitionand voting rights open the door to competition. The elite ruling class wants to keep the status quo.
The Civil Rights Movement was a movement against the status quo. One big issue for blacks was the ability to have equal employment: after the end of slavery, blacks were still treated as second-class citizens. The Movement was about an oppressed people lifting itself up to challenge the status quo and the ruling elites. One of the keys to change was educationbut blacks were still forced to learn in their own schools. White schools, where the best education was to be found, were denied to blacks.
The Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 changed all that and opened the door to integrationbut it also provoked racism in various states, particularly in the South. Activists fought back, with the Freedom Riders doing their part to draw attention to the...
…actions were seen as heroic by many.Even though the status quo did not want these people to have a full right to vote, in the end the status quo was knocked back on its feet. It still was not willing to give up, however, which is why the fight continues to this day. But all the same, the Civil Rights Movement showed that voting rights matter because in a democracy all people have the right to determine their government. The government is supposed to work for usnot us for the government. The idea that we are subject to the government goes against the idea of democracy. The trouble is maintaining democracy when so many people of influence and power want to restrict the ability of the people to act and have a voice, by manipulating the media and controlling peoples funds and finances. Today, it would be difficult to have a successful social movement without the support of the media, which is how word gets…
Civil Rights Movement Civil rights since 1954 with special reference to California's role A growing Cause, 1776-1865 The Declaration of Independence asserted that "all men have been created equal," as well as in 1788, the U.S. Constitution presupposed to "secure the blessings of liberty" towards the United States citizens. These rights as well as liberties, nevertheless, had been meant just for white individuals of property. The actual Founding Fathers by no means thought
Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education There were many great moments in the civil rights movement, but none stands out more than the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. That case truly addressed the horrors of segregation and gave a measure of equality to black school children who wanted to be able to attend school with their white counterparts. Occurring in 1954, the Brown case
The milestone that the Civil Rights Movement made as concerns the property ownership is encapsulated in the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which is also more commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act, or as CRA '68. This was as a follow-up or reaffirmation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, discussed above. It is apparent that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 outlawed discrimination in property and housing there
During the mid 1960s, "highly public demonstrations" (525) became more popular and gained momentum among the community because popular and significant individuals close to the cause supported them. The power and attention these protest garnered illustrated just how serious African-Americans were in achieving their goals. The protests proved to the people that they could do more than they thought they could. They could accomplish things even though they were
The Black Power phase was best embodied by one of its leaders, Malcolm X, a Muslim convert who used the Islam religion as his philosophy in promoting the Black Power movement's objectives, which promotes the use of violence as replacement to moral idealism in the black Americans' fight against discrimination and prejudice. More than anything else, the Black Power movement promoted the use of violence directly against white Americans --
In 1934 he published his first collection of short stories, entitled, the Ways of White Folks, which provided a series of short insights into the humorous and tragic interactions between the two races. During this time Hughes also established several theater groups in such cities as Los Angeles and Chicago. In 1935 he also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, which he used to help begin to write scripts for movies
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