Civil Rights Movement Sacrifices

People, blacks, and whites had to endure many challenges before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement . A lot of people had to make sacrifices in their lives to be a part of the Movement. People became unemployed, were abused countless times by the police, southerners, and people who disagree with segregation. They also sacrificed their education, children (teenagers and college students), and their right to defend themselves. Using sources, this essay will show the numerous sacrifices and challenges that were made by Civil Rights activists, and the successes obtained through the Movement.
Most people believe that the Civil Rights Movement emerged in 1954, but the Movement started before 1954 . This caused many people to wonder why …show more content…
Freedom rides were activist buying bus tickets for transportation to the south. The activists would leave the north integrated on the bus but once they enter the south, the colored people had to sit in the back. The activist started staying in their seats; they would not move to the back of the bus. It was a law that public bus transportation and its terminals were integrated, but the south refused to follow this law . The activist faced tremendous amounts of violence; stops made during the trip, activists would try to use whites only bathrooms and the whites in those bathrooms would abuse the activists . Around this time buses with activists on them were fire-bombed; after the activist fled the bus they were brutally beaten . “Pounding them with pipes, with key rings, and with fist,” . The abusers were southerners and cops as well; the southerners abused them but the police would purposefully arrive late and then they would arrest the Freedom Riders, not the abusive southerners . This was a true test of courage, strength, and faith because, the activists chose to continue the Freedom Rides, even though they knew there was a great chance the buses would be firebombed and they would be abused. “But we can’t let them stop us with violence. If we do, the movement is …show more content…
Philip Randolph, and a few other members. At the March on Washington, John Lewis gives a speech and his states they will not accept President Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill because it does not in voting rights for African Americans in the south and it does not allow you to vote without a sixth-grade education . The bill also does not guarantee jobs and higher wages for African Americans and it does not include protection at voting poll sites or protection in general . M.L.K. also gave a speech, which is now famous, called I Have a Dream. In this speech, he talks about a new America and in that society love will be the highest virtue, not violence, segregation, and hate