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- 51: King And Thoreau
- ... sit-ins and rallies to unite the black community. Blacks were forced to sit on the back of busses, use separate bathrooms, water fountains, spaces in a restaurant, and schools. Segregation made the blacks feel inferior and unequal. King led many black protesters to use methods such as banning busses, sit ins, and marches. These non-violent acts of public speech ... in Birmingham Alabama. While being held in Birmingham Jail, King wrote "The Letter from Birmingham Jail" to his fellow clergymen expressing how disappointed he was with the U.S. and segregation. King wrote "Any law that uplifts human personality is just...All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality." (King 491) Thoreau wrote his letter that shared the same views as King about government injustices. Thoreau ...
- 52: A Raisin In The Sun
- The civil rights movement brought enlightenment towards the abolishment of segregation laws. Although the laws are gone does segregation still exist in fact? What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? said, in a poem by Langston Huges. The story, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry showed segregation and its affects upon all races. This essay will show how Assimilationists and New Negroes fought for their own identity in the mid twentieth century. Whether they were being ...
- 53: African Culture
- ... has been destroyed, yet it is still very possible to "play the racial card" in the political arena. Blacks and other racially-defined minorities are no longer subject to legal segregation, but they have not been relieved of the burdens of discrimination, even by laws supposedly intended to do so. Whites are no longer the official "ruling race," yet they still ... themselves based on a centuries-long tradition of resistance to conquest, enslavement, and racial oppression. Thus all the social practices which enforced black racial dualism in 1903 continue today: the segregation of minority (and particularly black) communities (Massey and Denton 1993), the discriminatory and regressive allocation of underemployment, undereducation, and other forms of substantive inequality to members of these communities, and ... the black community. The divergent experiences of the black middle class and the black poor -- experiences far more distant from each other than they were in the days of official segregation -- make a unitary racial identity seem a distant dream indeed. A whole other set of divisions has emerged around gender, such that black men's and women's experiences ...
- 54: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... positive impression on whites outside the south. To protest against discrimination, King did marches, demonstrations, and boycotts. He boycotted buses in an effect to gain better treatment; but not end segregation. During his demonstrations, King was arrested and was sent to jail. National reactions to the bombing of King’s home focused on media attention and it built support for the struggle of black Civil Rights. The demonstrations forced white leaders to negotiate an end to some forms of segregation. They also encouraged many Americans to support national legislation against segregation. On August 28, 1963, King delivered an address to an audience of more than 200,000 civil rights reporters. His “I Have a Dream” speech expressed hopes on the ...
- 55: When the Government Stood Up For Civil Rights
- ... take advantage of wartime prosperity. The civil rights issue was now gaining a national face. Then the Supreme Court handed down its devastating decision in Plessey vs. Ferguson (1896), that segregation is constitutional as long as facilities are "separate but equal." In the words of the one dissenting justice, "this is the worst decision the court has ever handed down." The ... contingent protested, "They put the Negroes in school and now they've driven God out" Slowly, with much violence and the use of federal marshals, and on occasion federal troops, segregation was achieved. The South had no choice, Congress had finally entered the scene with the new Civil Rights Act of 1964, which had delivered a mandate - desegregate the school system ... to discriminate would hinder part of the national economic system. Other opposition included a backlash of riots among working class blacks, who felt the bill insulted them. White groups for segregation responded with demonstrations and and increased support of pro-segregation candidates in Congress. Groups rushed to point out the deficiencies in the Act. Title VII, dealing with discrimination in ...
- 56: Migrant Labour
- ... preached that God had elected a chosen people (Giniewski, 1965), which the Dutch believed were themselves. This dogma preached that there should be no unity between the different races, but segregation of the races(Giniewski, 1965) and that Christians "whites" were given official authority/guardian ship over the natives (Blacks, Indians and Asians)(Giniewski, 1965). This is where the seed of segregation was planted and the unequal development of the races with in South Africa began( Browett,1982). Segregation formed the foundation for what we know now as apartheid and all of its constructs. One of the crucial construct of the development of South Africa was the creation ...
- 57: Cival Rights Act 1964
- ... take advantage of wartime prosperity. The civil rights issue was now gaining a national face. Then the Supreme Court handed down its devastating decision in Plessey vs. Ferguson (1896), that segregation is constitutional as long as facilities are "separate but equal." In the words of the one dissenting justice, "this is the worst decision the court has ever handed down." The ... contingent protested, "They put the Negroes in school and now they've driven God out" Slowly, with much violence and the use of federal marshals, and on occasion federal troops, segregation was achieved. The South had no choice, Congress had finally entered the scene with the new Civil Rights Act of 1964, which had delivered a mandate - desegregate the school system ... to discriminate would hinder part of the national economic system. Other opposition included a backlash of riots among working class blacks, who felt the bill insulted them. White groups for segregation responded with demonstrations and and increased support of pro-segregation candidates in Congress. Groups rushed to point out the deficiencies in the Act. Title VII, dealing with discrimination in ...
- 58: Martin Luther King
- Martin Luther King The most important person to have made a significant change in the rights of Blacks was Martin Luther King. He had great courage and passion to defeat segregation and racism that existed in the United States, and it was his influence to all the Blacks to defy white supremacy and his belief in nonviolence that lead to the ... others were found guilty, but they appealed the sentence. When in November 13, the MIA was fined $15,000, at the same time, the Supreme Court found the Alabama's segregation laws were unconstitutional. That night the KKK looted 40 cars in hopes of scaring the Blacks. But the black people did not hide in their homes and turn the lights ... caste system, which was a system in which the hierarchy of social classes dominated the country. His influence onto black students was incredible. They felt the courage to revolt against segregation. For example, on February 1, 1960, there was a group of black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, who sat down in a lunch room for whites. This tactic ...
- 59: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... black leaders in Montgomery formed an organization called the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and called for a boycott of the busses to protest the arrest of Mrs. Parks and the segregation they were forced to endure. Martin Luther King, Jr., was elected president of the MIA. The MiA organized car pools and raised money so the local churches could buy vans ... to fight back, because he was a nonviolent man. The blacks in Montgomery stayed off the buses for more than a year. Finally, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Segregation on public buses was illegal. (Jim Haskins The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot) " Because this Non-Violent protest worked, Dr. King and other ministers believed that they could ... room where they were sitting. What better way to honor the great man’s memory, King asked, than for Kennedy to issue a "second Emancipation Proclamation," declaring all forms of segregation illegal. When King finished laying out his case, Kennedy replied with a lesson in practical politics. It was a bad time for civil rights legislation, he said. Elected narrowly, ...
- 60: Martin Luther King
- Martin Luther King The most important person to have made a significant change in the rights of Blacks was Martin Luther King. He had great courage and passion to defeat segregation and racism that existed in the United States, and it was his influence to all the Blacks to defy white supremacy and his belief in nonviolence that lead to the ... others were found guilty, but they appealed the sentence. When in November 13, the MIA was fined $15,000, at the same time, the Supreme Court found the Alabama's segregation laws were unconstitutional. That night the KKK looted 40 cars in hopes of scaring the Blacks. But the black people did not hide in their homes and turn the lights ... caste system, which was a system in which the hierarchy of social classes dominated the country. His influence onto black students was incredible. They felt the courage to revolt against segregation. For example, on February 1, 1960, there was a group of black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, who sat down in a lunch room for whites. This tactic ...
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