Civil Rights Movement

The development of the Civil Rights Movement in USA until today.
This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of African slaves and their descendants to resist racial oppression andabolish the institution of slavery. Although American slaves were emancipated as a result of the Civil War and were then granted basic civil rights through the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenthamendments to the U.S. Constitution, struggles to secure federal protection of these rights continued during the next century. Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60sbroke the pattern of public facilities’ being segregated by race in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstructionperiod (1865–77). Although the passage in 1964 and 1965 of major civil rights legislation was victorious for the movement, by then militant black activists had begun to see their struggle as a freedomor liberation movement not just seeking civil rights reforms but instead confronting the enduring economic, political, and cultural consequences of past racial oppression. The two Eisenhower civilrights acts only added an extra 3% Black voters to the electoral roll for the 1960 election. Some would argue that this reflected Eisenhower’s failure to really put his weight behind civil rightslegislation. Others could argue that after 80 years of federal apathy,
Despite the fact that the civil war brought an official end to slavery in the United States, it did not erase the social barriers builtby “The peculiar institution." South America emerged from the civil war with a system of laws that undermined the freedom of African Americans and preserved many elements of white privilege. Blackpopulations were tiresome about the segregation which they had been subjugated so the civil rights movements were growing stronger and stronger. Throughout the South groups of individuals would...