The Barber Of Birmingham: The Most Important Role In The Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement

In June 1964, Queen's student Andrew Goodman went missing. He was found, along with two others in an earthen Mississippi ditch, shot and dead. Shot for helping black people register to vote, it demonstrating the violence to stop blacks from voting. The Barber of Birmingham demonstrates the individuals and the change they brought to the Civil rights movement. From the foot soldiers, to the marches, and to the aftershocks, this documentary describes the revolution and information behind it. Civil rights activists were foot soldiers, called so because they played one of the most important role in the revolution, yet didn't have a role of authority. The people who marched were regular folks with jobs and families, not politicians. These people were protesting racism, to put it simply. To …show more content…
Then with voting rights of blacks granted with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, white people were angry. Blacks could now vote; therefore they would vote the racist white people out of office, which were most of the people in office. Whites would do everything to make sure black people could vote at the polls. Literacy tests, taxes on polls, proof of property, and many more were used to disenfranchise blacks. Voting discrimination existed mainly in the South. Protested then by the foot soldiers in the Bloody Sunday march, where the Barber of Birmingham himself marched. This was met with violence, leading to the name “Bloody Sunday”, injuring 67 in total. Attitudes towards the movement shifted, then it was being pushed for equality. Then, around 50 years later, the first black president is
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