Civil Right Movement

Racial segregation has always been a major issue in the United States that continues nowadays although at a totally different level. We can clearly see it with Barak Obama, who since 2008 besidesbeing the 44 president of the USA is the first black man in the White house. This would have been impossible without the struggle of several generations, that it the past fought for equality and morespecifically during the 50´s and 60´s with the civil right movement. Does it ring a bell the name of Rosa parks? Or maybe Malcolm X?
He was a Muslim pastor (that for the record converted the boxerCassius Clay best known as Mohamed Ali) that preached the unification of the Africa Diaspora free from America and European domination.
What about the black panthers? It´s a revolutionary movementformed in 1966 by bobby seal and Huey P. Newton protect black population in ghettos from police brutality. It is the sole black organization in the entire history of black struggle against slavery andoppression in the United States that was armed and promoted a revolutionary agenda, and it represents the last great thrust by the mass of black people for equality, justice and freedom.
Ok…and MartinLuther king?
Yes, all of them are the main characters of the civil right movement but before getting to them, do you know how was live for black people before the civil right movement?
To begin,slavery was not abolished until 1863 after a bloody civil war where the states of the North with Abraham Lincoln as president fought against the states of the south that wanted to form a confederateStates of America where slavery was allowed. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln enacted the emancipation proclamation, and at the end of the war in 1865 after the victory of the North, the 13 amendment was written.After, the emancipation proclamation new “negro codes “were written, those codes were pretty much the same as the old ones but contained the famous Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were state and...