A Mid-Term Paper On The Civil Rights Movement

RUNNING HEAD: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Donna Fedelski
Mount Washington College

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 2

ABSTRACT I am writing my mid-term paper on the Civil Rights Movement which I think is one of the most important movements in the United States in the last one hundred years. The Civil Rights movement is a revolutionary movement that took place in our country in the hope that the words written on the Declaration of Independence “that all men are created equal” will apply to everybody. The Civil Rights Movement was inevitable because any time
We all have heard of such Civil Rights leaders as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglas but ther is many more leaders of the movement that should be remembered. Civil Right Leaders such as James Farmer co-founder of C.O.R.E. (Congress of racial equality) and part of Martin Luther King Jr. inner circle and helped organize the Freedom Rides John Lewis who helped form the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.). He helped plan and spoke at the March on Washington in 1964 as well as led marchers across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in
African American Civil Rights Leaders such as A. Philip Randolph are not as well-known but impacted the movement greatly. He organized the first all-black union of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 which let African Americans know that they have power when organized and come together for a cause. Roy Wilkins was also another civil right leader who had a big impact on the movement. He was a leader for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from1931 to 1977. He was also responsible in overturning the Separate but Equal law for education in the Supreme Court. He was also vital in pushing for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Also advisor to President Lyndon B Johnson, Whitney Young was responsible for a lot of the anti-poverty legislation passed in the 1960’s. There is also others who sacrificed their lives for the cause such as Medgar Evers who was killed by the KKK while working with the NAACP in recruiting drives and voter drives in Mississippi. Many other people lost their lives and many others toiled endlessly for the Civil Rights Movement but Medgar Evers murder was responsible for a increase in grass root efforts for Civil Rights which helped in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which basically outlawed discrimination of any kind based on color race or religion etc…There were many others but these are some of the influential ones who are not as