Thurgood Marshall Contribution To Civil Rights
5. What contribution did Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., SNCC, CORE and the SCLC make to civil rights?
The contribution that Thurgood Marshall made on civil rights was a significant one. Marshall First was a legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also known as the NAACP. He directed the lawsuit that demolished the legal foundations of the Jim Crow segregation. As well as this, Marshall as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and the nation’s first black justice, he came up with a distinctive legal system by harsh liberalism, unusual awareness to practical considerations beyond the paperwork of law, and an untiring willingness to argument. Rosa Parks contributed to the civil …show more content…
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was one of the most extreme controversies in American history. It was an extremely important step to equality for many American citizens. The bill was passed on July 2, 1964 and was signed into law by President Johnson. In 1963, the Civil Rights Act was first written, before President Kennedy's assassination. Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the civil rights movement had lasted for centuries long. There had been countless riots, protests, fights, acts, boycotts, laws and many more actions to stop the racism and separate-but-equal concept. The civil rights movement can be described as a mass mobilization across socio-economic, gender, religious and racial lines to affect the development of policy and legislation to foster greater equality in the United States. The civil rights movement in America was centered on the thought that social and economic equality should be accessible for all people and that it is the federal government’s responsibility in producing that equality. One hundred years after the Civil War, civil rights finally declared itself. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban discrimination in public accommodations. It also prohibited state and local governments from banning access to public spaces on account or race, religion, or ethnicity. Lastly, the act ban government agencies from discriminating and it threatened federal funding. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the country’s leading civil rights legislation. The act also enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote. This act greatly affected employment, education and society. In present day, the act still affects us. We experience the outcome of the act every day of our lives, black children go to school with white children, black men work alongside of white men, and different cultures and races essentially live life together all because of the Civil Rights Act of
The contribution that Thurgood Marshall made on civil rights was a significant one. Marshall First was a legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also known as the NAACP. He directed the lawsuit that demolished the legal foundations of the Jim Crow segregation. As well as this, Marshall as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and the nation’s first black justice, he came up with a distinctive legal system by harsh liberalism, unusual awareness to practical considerations beyond the paperwork of law, and an untiring willingness to argument. Rosa Parks contributed to the civil …show more content…
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was one of the most extreme controversies in American history. It was an extremely important step to equality for many American citizens. The bill was passed on July 2, 1964 and was signed into law by President Johnson. In 1963, the Civil Rights Act was first written, before President Kennedy's assassination. Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the civil rights movement had lasted for centuries long. There had been countless riots, protests, fights, acts, boycotts, laws and many more actions to stop the racism and separate-but-equal concept. The civil rights movement can be described as a mass mobilization across socio-economic, gender, religious and racial lines to affect the development of policy and legislation to foster greater equality in the United States. The civil rights movement in America was centered on the thought that social and economic equality should be accessible for all people and that it is the federal government’s responsibility in producing that equality. One hundred years after the Civil War, civil rights finally declared itself. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban discrimination in public accommodations. It also prohibited state and local governments from banning access to public spaces on account or race, religion, or ethnicity. Lastly, the act ban government agencies from discriminating and it threatened federal funding. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the country’s leading civil rights legislation. The act also enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote. This act greatly affected employment, education and society. In present day, the act still affects us. We experience the outcome of the act every day of our lives, black children go to school with white children, black men work alongside of white men, and different cultures and races essentially live life together all because of the Civil Rights Act of