African American Segragation

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The United States had acheived superstatus by the end of World War II, but inside the country our American people were seperated by color. Many African-Americans experienced prejudice, so they began to non-violently protest against segragation for the sake of freedom. The United States government was involved with the outlawing of segragation after the public was informed about the horrible events through the media. Racist Whites acted against desegragation, it created hardship for the government and its people but, in the end the U.S. successfully granted African-Americans liberty. I believe racial segragation was the most difficult issue to overcome because the american people weren't united, African-Americans had to demonstrate in order …show more content…
Signs pointed out which side was for whites, and the other for colored. The Brown v. Board of Education court case was one of the first events during the Civil Rights Movement. Oliver Brown sued the Topeka Board of Education on behalf of his daughter during 1954, a school was close to his home but his daughter still had to travel across town to attend another school that accepted blacks. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brown, and ruled segregation illegal. Throughout the country cities like Birmingham were seperated, whites lived a better life than blacks. Rosa Parks, a member of the NAACP an organization that fought against racial segregation, was once arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. After that, the Montgomery Bus boycott began people stopped riding the bus, instead the protesters walked or carpooled. Bus companies began losing so much money that the buses cooperated with the protesters. The boycott caught the attention of Martin Luther King Jr. , and he decided to form the Southern Christian Leadership Confrence because of the victory in Montgomery. King led non-violent protests for the civil rights of Negroes. His goal was to create a situation so crisis packed that it would inevitably open the door to negotiation over desegregation of public …show more content…
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee began from the sit-in movement, they risked racial retaliation by conducting civil rights projects. Freedom rides were a form of direct action that was brought back by the SNCC. These rides challenged the Kennedy Administration to enforce court decisions that declared segragation on interstate buses and in bus stations unconstitutional. One of the buses heading south was attacked in Alabama, the first person to get of the bus was a white man that was severly beaten. Supposedly, an angry white mob beat the protesters for ten minutes shortly before the police arrived because the police gave the mob ten minutes to do so. Freedom Summer was another project led by the SNCC it targeted Mississippi with an effort to register African-American voters. The outcome of Freedom Summer was bad, at least six civil rights workers met violent deaths. A conspiracy among Ku Klux Klan leaders and law-enforcement officers from Neshoba County, Mississippi was that three volunteers were bruttally murdered outside of town. The white moderate simply didn't want segregation to end, so law officers like Eugene "Bull" Conor would unleash dogs and use firehoses on demonstraters. Later on, the March of Washington began, more than 20,000 Americans marched through the nation's capitol to the Lincoln Memorial where King would deliver
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