Civil Rights Dbq

There is no doubt the civil rights era was a time of progressive movement towards equality. With limited help from the government and racial tensions still high, made integration almost impossible to work with making civil rights passed. But big leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, and Bayard Rustin revolutionized the way blacks should think about how to enhance the black community. Each leader had their own approach to solving the black community’s racial problems. King prefers to take a peaceful protest, while X was more inclined to separation from the whites, and Rustin’s approach was more of enhancing the black community through economic prosperity. The civil rights movement started before the 50’s and 60’s and certain events only help bring more

During the late eighteen hundred and early nineteen hundred some key events such as the Plessy vs Ferguson decision which led to spate but equal treatment and the Niagara Movement which helps set up the NAACP, according to the faculty.polytechnic.org. Also leading up to the 50’s and 60’s were the race riots and lynching’s of 1919. As well as the Brown vs. Board case. Of course there are many of other cases that help change the attitudes of blacks to really push for change. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham jail” talked about several issues that were concerning him and the critics that wrote to him. During this time of 1967 King was jailed in Birmingham, Alabama for applying for a parade permit. While in jail he decided to respond to what the clergymen said.