dimanche 7 janvier 2018

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By Catherine Graham


Racism was a disease for a very long time in the USA. It may have gone down with time, but before the 1950s and 60s, it was very wide spread. This is around the time when African Americans started standing up for themselves and fighting for their rights. Evidently, they were successful. The article below touches on some of the African American civil rights movement facts.

In the 1940s African Americas worked on firms and were given all of the odd jobs. This was a few years before the beginning of world war two. The black people were not even allowed to join the military. In 1941 black people threatened to march into Washington DC if the job market was not made fare for everyone. The then president allowed different jobs for all races.

There was the Montgomery bus system which meant that there were seats reserved for black people in the back and the white people would sit in the front. In 1955, Rosa parks broke this law. She sat in the front. A white man then entered the bus and did not have somewhere to sit. The driver ordered Rosa and other black people to move to the back, but she stayed put and got arrested.

There were also schools set aside for black people and for white people. However, the supreme court ruled against this kind of segregation in 1954 which proved truly that people have moved on with this kind of selective life. In 1957, nine black students were to report to central high school for education where they went and found a screaming mob and a guard awaiting them. They were denied access but came back two weeks later and were allowed to go in.

There was also the law that stated that black people could not share food joints with white people. In 1960, four students went to wool worths lunch counter but were refused service. They, in turn, remained adamant. The next day, other black people did the same and refused to leave without service. They eventually wore out the white people and the four students were the first to be served in wool worths lunch counter.

In 1963, Philip Rudolph, Martin Luther King, and Bayard Rustin arranged for a peaceful demonstration in Washington DC. The demonstration contained of up to two hundred thousand people, both black and white a show of unity amongst the people of both races. The peak of the speech was when Luther delivered his famous speech. It generated a popular slogan that has lasted years later.

At Edmund Pettus bridge, 600 people were prevented from entering the state of Alabama. They were demonstrating in protest as a white police officer had killed a black human rights activist. They insisted on marching on but the state police beat them badly and threw tear gas at them. They were rushed to the hospital, but the whole thing was caught on live TV. At hence the day was known as Bloody Sunday.

Even after voting being made legal in 1957 in the USA, black people in the southern states still experienced challenges. The white people would put really difficult or impossible questions on the literacy tests just to fail them.




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