The Black Civil Rights Movement in America

The civil right movement refers to the reform movement in the United States beginning in the 1954 to 1968 led primarily by Blacks for outlawing racial discrimination against African-Americans to prove the civil rights of personal Black citizen. For ten decades after the Emancipation Proclamation, African-Americans in Southern states still live a rigid unequal world of deprive right of citizenship, segregation and various forms of oppression, including race-inspired violence. “Jim Crow” laws at the local and state levels. The nonviolent protest and civil disobedient were used by the civil right activist to bring change. The civil right movement produces many great leaders and many social changes that resulted as organized civil rights events that were staged throughout the south by organizations dedicated to finish segregation. The civil right movement help the African American people the urge to pursue their American dream. The distinguish civil right leader during the time was Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and the most memorable events that took cause during the movement was the fight to gain equality in voting rights for the black. The cause and effect to the civil rights movement were initiated by the African American teen visiting relatives in Mississippi from Chicago, the intensity in Selma, Alabama, Rosa Park refusal; integrate Little Rock central high school and James Meredith.

The awakenings of 1954 to 1956 lead to several events happen in the black community. In August 28, 1955, the awakening resulted as the murder of the 14-yea-old Emmett Till, who was visiting his relative in Mississippi, was brutally murdered and his body thrown in Tallahatchie River found after three days of search by a fisherman. Emmett Till broke the unwritten law of the Jim Crow south. Till mother decide to let the world see what happened to her son through open casket funeral. Many people worldwide saw the brutality the boy suffered. At trial, the Mississippi finds the two accused killers not guilty despite the two eyewitnesses and the nation outrage. The two men admit their guilt and describe the details after being tried twice to the interviewer Hue Williams. The death of Emmett Till and the killers lead to the civil right movement.

Shortly after the death of Emmet Till few months later, the 43 years old civil right activist Rosa Parks who worked as a secretary for the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.