Civil Rights Issues In The Early 1600's

Since the beginning of time, people have been fighting for civil rights. As long as there are people in the world, there will be civil rights problems. Because of growing issues with civil rights, people have stared many fights and rally’s to fight for their rights. One major civil right problem was slavery. Another major problem was the mental health reform. Various historical and contemporary civil rights and reform movements made a big impact on U.S. society today.

In the early 1600’s, one of the biggest civil rights issues came to America. This issue was called slavery. Slavery was when the whites forced the African Americans into involuntary servitude. (See Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom) Children were

put in child labor as early as the age of four. Child labor was like slavery for kids. In the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s, the blacks began to fight against the whites until slavery was abolished in the mid and through some of the late 1900’s. Another major civil rights movement was the mental health reform. The mental health reform was a movement to fight for the rights of the mentally disabled. Many of the people who were disabled were not treated equally and chained up. (See US Newswire) There was also the prison reform. The prison reform was when mentally disabled people and children were thrown in prison. (See Carol Brennan) Parents of the children and people of the United States were outraged because their children were not being treated fairly. Most of the disabled children were not even able to get an education because they were different from “normal” people.
Civil rights in the past has made a huge impact on society today because it has taught us that even though we will have our differences, we should try treat everyone equal no matter what. One big civil rights problem in our nation today is the wage gap. The wage gap is the amount more money men make than women. In most work places, men make almost twice as much money as women do. (See Besen-Cassino) This has outraged many women in the United States because they think that it is not fair that they make less than a man, which it is not, just because back then men were way above women in society.
Most people know that civil rights is going to be a problem from now until the end of time. Even though civil rights is a problem, that doesn’t mean that people can just be unfair to people for no reason or even if they have a reason. Civil rights is like an not curable disease, you can find medication to help with the symptoms but it will never get fully cured but if you don’t even do anything about it, then it will just worsen. You can help solve some civil rights problems, but the main issue of civil rights will never go away. If you keep judging people based on the color of their skin or their gender, then the issue will just worsen. There is nothing anyone can do to help civil rights, except be excepting of everyone.
In conclusion, various historical and contemporary civil rights and reform movements made a big impact on U.S. society today. Even though there is so much we can do to help solve the issue of civil rights, there will still be people who are not wanting to treat people equally. Even today there are still many racist people in America. (See Mary E. Williams) That has to do with what time period they were born in. Most of them were born in the early 1940’s-50’s when blacks were not treated equal at all and so because people saw them that way as children, that is the way they will see them today and many days to come.