Differences In The Civil Rights Movement

In today’s world, people of all races and skin colors mix. However, in the past, it wasn’t always like this. Blacks were always separate, they even had separate drinking fountains. However, the blacks’ facilities weren’t always equal to the white facilities. Often, they were of much lower quality, which denied the theme “Separate but equal”. Black people chose to fight for their rights in the 1955 Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement, but several people walked in his footsteps. People all over the United states fought for civil rights. This essay will explain how people have walked in his footsteps, and have chosen to make a difference in this world. In the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. made a
After George Zimmerman shot an unarmed black teen fatally while he was on neighborhood watch, he was charged for murder. One tag on social media is #IfTheyGunnedMeDown. After seeing how racially corrupt police officers were, black people on social media started to wonder what picture would be used on the Media if they were fatally shot by the police. These posts often featured a picture of the person who posted it looking polite and upstanding, and another picture of them looking unwholesome. There are people who do not support these tags. #BlackLivesMatter is very popular on social media. It is a movement that has organized protest, met with presidential candidates and other famous people, and received their approval. People who were against #BlackLivesMatter said that it should be changed to #AllLivesMatter. However, people have argued that #AllLivesMatter implies that all lives, black or white, are equally at stake, when they are not. #BlackLivesMatter and #IfTheyGunnedMeDown are examples of following in King’s footsteps in a modern