Civil Rights Dbq

The USA has had many racial issues since the beginning. For instincts slavery, has been a big issue Abraham Lincoln tried to abolish slavery by signing the emancipation proclamation, however it caused the civil war. Recently Jim Crow laws were passed which allowed segregation, and the kkk was established the Klu Klux Klan. Activists use multiple strategies for achieving civil rights which had both successes and failures.
Paragraph 1: (strategies)
Activist used multiple strategies to achieving civil rights. Activists had protests and marches to get through to the other people, protests are a big group that gathers for a certain cause allowing them to say what they think about the subject or why the subject is wrong to do, marches in a way are like protests a big group of people get together and marche for certain causes. However some people with a higher education level or a higher popularity level would do a speech, a speech is where a person talks to a group about a certain subject. They had legal cases against people, laws, and even schools and some buildings, a legal case is a problem that you bring to court so that both sides can state their sides. They did boycotts where they would not use or buy things.

Paragraph 2: (examples)
Now you know what type of strategies they used here are some examples.

There was The March on Washington, also they did sit-ins which was a type of protests. Some of the speeches they had was “I Have a Dream” By Martin Luther King Jr. also “Civil Rights” By John F. Kennedy. Brown vs The board of Education which ended segregation in schools and Plessy Ferguson vs the schools district were only a few. A few boycotts were Montgover Bus Boycott, which started by Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat up on the

bus.
Paragraph 3: (success/failure)
Many of these resulted in success and failures. The March on Washington, was a success it was successful because it showed how many people wanted it to end, although the sit-ins are considered successful and a failure because when they were have a sit-in they were tortured but the reason they had a sit-in was realised and done something about. The speeches were a big success in many ways some of them will always remembered, also the speeches stood for a cause. Plessy Ferguson vs The Schools Districts was a failure in many ways it stated that the schools could remain separate but equal, later on they realised that being separate was not equal, which brings me to the other case Brown vs The Board of Education which was a big success it ended segregation in the schools. Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat up was a failure she was arrested and put into the police database, however the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a successful it made the bus companies lose business which forced to eventually change their laws.
Conclusion: (thesis, concluding statement)
The USA was a place that was a little messed up, however we tried to do protest, marches, speech, legal cases, and boycotts we tried a lot to fix it some of the ways were success and some were failures. Activists would use many strategies to achieve civil rights some of them were successful other were not so successful. When the USA was go through slavery it was a messed up placed, I do not think that any of it was right, the kkk was just childish and moronic, although our past has shaped the USA and many of other states.