The civil rights movement single handedly changed the United States of America, it changed the way the US acted, their laws, their attitudes, virtually everything. The outcome of this movement ushered in a new era, blacks were finally equal in the eyes of the law and these people who had been denied their basic rights had finally been granted them. To many it felt they were finally acknowledged as humans, not animals. The civil rights movement stands out against other political and social movements because it was on a huge scale, the ripple effect caused by the first protests could be felt throughout all of american and even the world. For so long african americans had kept their mouth shuts and dealt with the vial treatment they received until suddenly they stood up for themselves, and when they did they stood up by the thousands. Almost no other movements have seen the same results this movement did as stated before they earned their basic civil rights and changed all of
The civil rights movement single handedly changed the United States of America, it changed the way the US acted, their laws, their attitudes, virtually everything. The outcome of this movement ushered in a new era, blacks were finally equal in the eyes of the law and these people who had been denied their basic rights had finally been granted them. To many it felt they were finally acknowledged as humans, not animals. The civil rights movement stands out against other political and social movements because it was on a huge scale, the ripple effect caused by the first protests could be felt throughout all of american and even the world. For so long african americans had kept their mouth shuts and dealt with the vial treatment they received until suddenly they stood up for themselves, and when they did they stood up by the thousands. Almost no other movements have seen the same results this movement did as stated before they earned their basic civil rights and changed all of