Dbq Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement in America
Discrimination in America has never been condemned like today, but how did the country change from a place where discrimination was a part of every day’s life to a place where discrimination is not encouraged by many. Unfortunately, African Americans have been the ones who have suffered the most from discrimination mainly because of the type of their skin. The Civil Rights is the moment when African Americans could finally achieve what their forefathers had been promised a Century ago. To achieve these people had to sacrifice their lives, the sages were not wrong when they uttered the proverb no pain no gain.
There were many Civil Rights activists that challenged the injustice that had been happening to them. A good example is James Meredith, who was he first African American to go to an all-white college, and is a past victim to discrimination. This is seen when James Meredith says, “I have been denied my privileges all along, but these whites have not been.” (Doc # 2).This shows how African Americans in the 1960’s and before experienced injustice although the constitution written centuries before the Civil Rights movement interprets that in order for a perfect union justice should be established. (Doc #1) …show more content…
People like Martin Luther King played an important role in making sure that justice was served mainly in the south and encourage Blacks across America not to be satisfied as he famously said and I quote. “We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”(Doc # 3) The Statement above Just showed how much African Americans were willing to fight for equal
Discrimination in America has never been condemned like today, but how did the country change from a place where discrimination was a part of every day’s life to a place where discrimination is not encouraged by many. Unfortunately, African Americans have been the ones who have suffered the most from discrimination mainly because of the type of their skin. The Civil Rights is the moment when African Americans could finally achieve what their forefathers had been promised a Century ago. To achieve these people had to sacrifice their lives, the sages were not wrong when they uttered the proverb no pain no gain.
There were many Civil Rights activists that challenged the injustice that had been happening to them. A good example is James Meredith, who was he first African American to go to an all-white college, and is a past victim to discrimination. This is seen when James Meredith says, “I have been denied my privileges all along, but these whites have not been.” (Doc # 2).This shows how African Americans in the 1960’s and before experienced injustice although the constitution written centuries before the Civil Rights movement interprets that in order for a perfect union justice should be established. (Doc #1) …show more content…
People like Martin Luther King played an important role in making sure that justice was served mainly in the south and encourage Blacks across America not to be satisfied as he famously said and I quote. “We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”(Doc # 3) The Statement above Just showed how much African Americans were willing to fight for equal